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Specify which TLDs the root CAs are responsible for!

Specify which TLDs the root CAs are responsible for!

Posted Feb 3, 2010 13:48 UTC (Wed) by gerv (subscriber, #3376)
In reply to: Specify which TLDs the root CAs are responsible for! by cortana
Parent article: China Internet Network Information Center accepted as a Mozilla root CA

It's a good idea. There is such a thing built into the standard, called "name constraints". However, NSS doesn't support them quite right yet.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394919

That bug appears to have stalled. In general, NSS is under-resourced, so if someone wanted to step in and help, that would be great.

Gerv


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