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Microsoft Will Stop Trusting 20 Certificate Authorities

You Are Out If You Can’t Meet The Requirements

20 Certificate Authorities

Microsoft will stop trusting certificates from 20 Certificate Authorities. From January 2016, 20 CA’s will be removed from Trusted Root CA store. This is because the listed CA’s were not able to comply with the new requirements. If you are getting your certificates from the providers then users will see a security prompt when they try to visit your website. The best thing to do is get from a validated source before the programs starts removing them.

“This past spring, we began engaging with Certificate Authorities (CA) to solicit feedback and talk about upcoming changes to our Trusted Root Certificate Program. Among other things, the changes included more stringent technical and auditing requirements,” Microsoft enterprise and security group program manager Aaron Kornblum explained.

“If you use one of these certificates to secure connections to your server over https, when a customer attempts to navigate to your site, that customer will see a message that there is a problem with the security certificate,” says Kornblum.

“If you use one of these certificates to sign software, when a customer attempts to install that software on a Windows operating system, Windows will display a warning that the publisher may not be trusted. In either case, the customer may choose to continue.”

Author: Shivniel Gounder

TheGeek : Writes about information security, privacy, cybersecurity and latest tech gadgets and more.

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