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after you sold a .gov then any discussion about not supporting your root means denying users access to that .gov service.
by 1oooqooq 2y ago
after you sold a .gov then any discussion about not supporting your root means denying users access to that .gov service.
- lokar 2y agoCA roots are not connected to tlds
- devrand 2y agoThey’re saying that once you’ve sold certs to governments, distrusting that root will deny people access to government resources. They’re merely using “.gov” as a proxy for “some government”. Also roots can be TLD constrained, typically to ccTLD(s).
- lokar 2y agoBut they are very carefully not breaking anyone. If you have an entrust cert it will keep working, you can even renew it with them.
- e63f67dd-065b 2y agoMany government websites use Entrust, and that didn’t stop this from happening. So I don’t think that this is a good theory.