DigiCert says, come Saturday, July 11, it will revoke tens of thousands of encryption certificates issued by intermediaries that were not properly audited.
A notice emitted by the certificate biz explained that a number of its intermediate certificate authorities (ICAs) had issued EV certs to customers despite not being included in DigiCert's WebTrust audits – which goes against the rules for EV certs. To remedy this, DigiCert said it will revoke every single EV cert issued by the ICAs in question – think CertCentral, Symantec, Thawte, and GeoTrust.
"To resolve the issue, we must migrate issuance to new ICAs and revoke all certificates issued under the impacted ICAs," Digicert told its customers in an e ..
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