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Maybe as part of a way to secure the connection to their appliances? They could auto issue certs after verifying ownership. Maybe they're gonna give appliances
by MichaelGG 11y ago
Maybe as part of a way to secure the connection to their appliances? They could auto issue certs after verifying ownership. Maybe they're gonna give appliances a name off their own DNS <whatever>.mycloud.cisco? Hell maybe they're becoming a real CA and gonna sell trust services.
Dunno how MS's process is, but with Firefox there's a nice application process that's very open and you can see their claims.
- chinathrow 11y agoIndeed. https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:How_to_apply https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:How_to_apply However, nothing to bee seen in bugzilla about Cisco regarding their new CA. I wonder if it is MS only? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=cisco https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=cisco
- e12e 11y agoRequiring Internet Explorer for switch management sounds like exactly the kind of stupid Cisco might go for. These days Chrome/chromium uses the system store AFAIK, so at least you can get surprising breakage in your management tool that isn't due to TLS, but rather some kind of IE compatibility hack... ;-)