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Russia creates its own TLS certificate authority to bypass sanctions
- BayAreaEscapee 5y agoIt's hard for me to see major browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) accepting Russia as a TLS CA, especially given Western sentiment toward what's happening in Ukraine right now. It's pretty obvious that the Russian government would use it to spy on users. A similar effort by Kazakhstan a few years ago was shot down by the major browsers. https://gbhackers.com/kazakhstan-root-ca-certificate/ https://gbhackers.com/kazakhstan-root-ca-certificate/
- JPLeRouzic 5y agoSo did France in 2013, to impersonate Google services in French Treasury's internal networks: https://security.googleblog.com/2013/12/further-improving-digital-certificate.html https://security.googleblog.com/2013/12/further-improving-di...