[Link] Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure

Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Security researchers have checked the web's public key infrastructure and have measured a long-known but little-analyzed security threat: hidden root Certificate Authorities. Certificate Authorities, or CAs, vouch for the digital certificates we use to establish trust online.

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