Martijn I'm not sure I see the problem here?
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Dongsung Kim The issuer of the root CA is Government of Korea, thus never being trusted by any web browser (except for IE.) Besides the fact that I don't trust them one single bit - wiki.mozilla.org/C... - they just are so willing to remove the warning(!) bugzilla.mozilla.o...
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Martijn I can actually come up with several legit reasons for a government to run their own CA. Governments are moving communications about important and personal things like healthcare online, and having these services encrypted with government signed certificates are a very good way of handling things. The real problem is that underlying CA structure where any root CA can MITM any website. Running add-ons like CertWatch, Certificate Patrol, and the Perspective Project can mitigate this, but not for average users.
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Mark Dain I don't think that was the issue here; it's fine to have your own CA (I do) but when you don't include the CA on any browser but IE it seems like vendor lock-in.
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Martijn I understood to not want this CA accepted in any browser, as he doesn't rust them
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Mark Dain It may help to read this: sublevel.net/re/13923 it seems he frustrated all the government sites require / are built for IE.
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Dongsung Kim To clarify, it's kinda both. In Korea, the Internet has been evolved around Internet Explorer and ActiveX. There's a legitimate historical reason of course, but after 10+ years they don't bother trying to change things accessible, user-friendly, or any good means. The example I've given shows the CA not being trusted by any web browser except for IE, which demonstrates how lousy/inconsiderately they do their job, and at the same time my personal untrustworthiness toward the system. cc/
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