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Thanks; that's helpful. One point confuses me: > Only two major browser vendors also operate a distinct major trust store. If you're Microsoft (IE, Edge) or Ap
by forapurpose 8y ago
Thanks; that's helpful. One point confuses me:
> Only two major browser vendors also operate a distinct major trust store. If you're Microsoft (IE, Edge) or Apple (Safari) this is de facto not a problem since you also control the OS.
> For Chrome the OS trust store is used, (on Android this of course is Google's trust store but on a desktop it isn't) but, Chrome layers some Google policy rules on top.
If only two major browser vendors operate a distinct major trust store, and they aren't Microsoft or Apple, I infer that Google operates a distinct major trust store (along with Mozilla). But that seems to contradict the second statement: Why operates a trust store that you don't use. For ChromeOS?
- tialaramex 8y agoFor both ChromeOS and Android Google are the OS vendor. That's a lot of devices, so certainly not a "trust store that you don't use" although if you only run Chrome on Windows it might seem that way.
- forapurpose 8y agoAndroid, of course. I really wish HN would let me go back and edit that one.