Entrust got torpedoed basically for deploying an improvement to the requirements for its certificates slightly before the improvement got officially approved, a

Entrust got torpedoed basically for deploying an improvement to the requirements for its certificates slightly before the improvement got officially approved, and the browser people collectively lost their crud over the concept that Entrust didn't immediately revoke all of their... perfectly valid, secure certificates immediately. Fundamentally, there is no accountability in the web PKI stewards. You want to talk about utter waste and incredible damage to the Internet, you can see it right here, in the people determining who is allowed to issue you sets of magic numbers that browsers have agreed are trustworthy, despite everyone involved behaving like complete children. And of course, the browser operators all have their own root CAs, so basically have extremely motivated reasons to want to eliminate every commercial provider that isn't one of the monopoly companies. Meanwhile: - Compromised certificates are basically a non-issue from a threat model standpoint, every certificate error people hit are just... expired certificates people didn't rotate yet. - Expired certificates cause issues for the majority of businesses at some point or another, making the internet increasingly fragile and unreliable.