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November 1, 2015 07:56 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/XYeJjWS5k4E/chrome-wont-trust-symantec-b.html
Chrome won't trust Symantec-backed SSL as of Jun 1 unless they account for bogus certs
In September, Google caught Symantec issuing a fake google.com cryptographic certificate that could have been used to seamlessly intercept encrypted Google.com traffic. Symantec is one of the participants in Certificate Transparency, through which all new certificates issued and seen in the wild are logged to append-only, cryptographically provable logs, which create irrefutable audit trails for any bogus certs issued/discovered. (more…)
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