Mozilla finally removes trust for Symantec certificates with Firefox 64.
December 14th 2018, By Rob Wright
After a brief delay, Mozilla finally distrusted all Symantec certificates with the release of Firefox 64 this week.
In October, Mozilla postponed the distrust deadline for Symantec certificates from Oct. 23 until the release of Firefox 64 this month. In 2017, Mozilla, Google and other major browser makers had agreed on a formal plan to remove trust for all Symantec certificates, including its GeoTrust, RapidSSL and Thawte brands.
The move came after Google engineers documented a "series of failures" within Symantec's public key infrastructure (PKI), including certificate misissuance, failures to remediate issues raised in audits and other bad habits that violated the Certificate Authority/Browser Forum's Baseline Requirements.
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