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I've no idea about the business of Certificate Authorities. Are they non-profits (like other Internet infrastructure organisations, data centers etc) or corpora

by chippy 12y ago

I've no idea about the business of Certificate Authorities. Are they non-profits (like other Internet infrastructure organisations, data centers etc) or corporations? How much, financially, would this action by Google affect the CNNIC CA?

joopxiv 12y ago
They are corporations. Their most important asset is trust, which they need to keep by not signing certificates that can be used for malicious purposes. The action by Google will definately impact this CA. As soon as this root certificate is no longer trusted, all Chrome users will see big warnings as soon as they visit a website that has a SSL certificate that is signed by them. I don't know the exact market share of Chrome, but I have no doubt it is large enough to make current customers of CCNIC switch to a different CA.