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Comment by robrain

3 hours ago

Mine were all blocked this morning when I informed my family of the mitigation methods.

I've just been rechecking everything and both iOS and MacOS browsers (Safari and Orion tested) now accept one (for MacOS, 27.0.1) or three (for iOS, 27.0.1) of them. I know the revocation is not an OS update, just including the version number for completeness.

EDIT: iPadOS with the same browsers continues to pass the tests.

Further EDIT: iPadOS now accepts one of them. This has to be a load issue on the "got a problem site", surely? Maybe a check for a certificate error message that never hits because a timeout beats it?

> Further EDIT: iPadOS now accepts one of them. This has to be a load issue on the "got a problem site", surely?

No, because it lets you successfully navigate to the forged CA test site.

You'll get a message to the effect of, "you shouldn't see this, this is bad"

Try clicking the link containing the CA's name for any that fail the test.

  • Cool.

    Checking Keychain access shows none of the intermediates, but it does have the emSign ECC Root CA - G3. Manually setting that to "Never Trust" stops the Mac browsers seeing the intermediate test sites as it should.

    I didn't go into this much detail this morning, so I don't know if previously the revocation from Apple hit the root as well as the intermediates. But right now, on my Mac, trusting that Root lets my browsers connect to the Intermediate CA ending C=NL. Switch the trust off and I go back to green "Did not connect".

    I guess the ball is in Apple's court as far as the iOS family goes.

    EDIT: intriguingly (to me at least), the AAA Certificate Service Root is still Trusted, yet the intermediates chained to it are all green "Did not connect"

    EDIT: I'm not promoting this nuclear option as a "solution" by the way, merely presenting some diagnostic information to help the group mind.