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Some background of the story: CNNIC is a root CA from China. It issued a false certificate[0] and got revoked by both Google[1] and Mozilla[2]. CNNIC is also
by dengnan 11y ago
Some background of the story:
CNNIC is a root CA from China. It issued a false certificate[0] and got revoked by both Google[1] and Mozilla[2].
CNNIC is also believed to behind some MITM attack against iCloud[3]. Pulling CNNIC from Firefox was once discussed five years ago on Mozilla's bugzilla[4, 5, 6].
0. https://cpj.org/blog/2015/03/chinas-cnnic-breaches-sacred-crypto-trust-endanger.php https://cpj.org/blog/2015/03/chinas-cnnic-breaches-sacred-cr...
1. http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/03/maintaining-digital-certificate-security.html?m=1 http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/03/maintaining...
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/02/mozilla_revokes_cnnic_cert_trust/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/02/mozilla_revokes_cnni...
3. https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-apple-icloud-data-attack-coincides-launch-new-iphone https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-appl...
4. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542689 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542689
5. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476766 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476766
6. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607208 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607208