Security News > 2017 > July > Google Chrome Bans Chinese SSL Certificate Authorities WoSign and StartCom (The Hackers News)
2017-07-08 02:44
As a punishment announced last October, Google will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificate authorities WoSign and its subsidiary StartCom with the launch of Chrome 61 for not maintaining the "high standards expected of CAs." The move came after Google was notified by GitHub's security team on August 17, 2016, that Chinese Certificate Authority WoSign had issued a base certificate for one of
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