Digicert Certificate Authority On July 11, approximately 50,000 EV (Extended Validation) TLS certificates will be revoked (). The revocation affects certificates issued by accredited certificate authorities that are not included in audit reports.
EV certificates validate the claimed identification parameters and require the certificate authority to verify domain ownership documents and the physical presence of the resource owner.
, governing the activities of certificate authorities, mandate a full audit when issuing EV certificates. The published DigiCert audit reports for EV certificates only the main infrastructure and did not include accredited certificate authorities established between August 2013 and February 2018 (the audit reports for these certificate authorities published only general audit reports, while detailed reports on EV certificates were omitted).
In order to remedy DigiCert agreed to revoke the EV certificates not mentioned in the audit reports issued by accredited certificate authorities using intermediate certificates. , ,
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Source: opennet.ru
