Certificate Root Stores: An Area of Unity or Disparity?

10/21/2021
by   Jegan Purushothaman, et al.
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Organizations like Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla and Google maintain certificate root stores, which are used as trust anchors by their software platforms. Is there sufficient consensus on their root-store inclusion and trust policies? Disparities appear astounding, including in the government-owned certificates that they trust. Such a status-quo is alarming.

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