{"id":2228,"date":"2017-08-30T10:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2017-08-30T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:47:04","slug":"removing-disabled-wosign-startcom-certificates-firefox-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2017\/08\/30\/removing-disabled-wosign-startcom-certificates-firefox-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Disabled WoSign and StartCom Certificates from Firefox 58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2016, Mozilla <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2016\/10\/24\/distrusting-new-wosign-and-startcom-certificates\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that, as of Firefox 51, we would stop validating new certificates chaining to the root certificates listed below that are owned by the companies WoSign and StartCom. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement also indicated our intent to eventually completely remove these root certificates from <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/CA\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla\u2019s Root Store<\/a>, so that we would no longer validate any certificates issued by those roots. That time has now arrived. We plan to release the <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=1387260\" target=\"_blank\">relevant<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=1392849\" target=\"_blank\">changes<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Mozilla\/Projects\/NSS\" target=\"_blank\">Network Security Services (NSS)<\/a> in November, and then the changes will be picked up in <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/RapidRelease\/Calendar\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 58<\/a>, due for release in January 2018. Websites using certificates chaining up to any of the following root certificates need to migrate to another root certificate.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement applies to the root certificates with the following names:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CA \u6c83\u901a\u6839\u8bc1\u4e66<\/li>\n<li>Certification Authority of WoSign<\/li>\n<li>Certification Authority of WoSign G2<\/li>\n<li>CA WoSign ECC Root<\/li>\n<li>StartCom Certification Authority<\/li>\n<li>StartCom Certification Authority G2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mozilla Security Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2016, Mozilla announced that, as of Firefox 51, we would stop validating new certificates chaining to the root certificates listed below that are owned by the companies WoSign &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2017\/08\/30\/removing-disabled-wosign-startcom-certificates-firefox-58\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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