Russia attempts mandating installation of root CA on clients for TLS MITM

Thu Mar 10 22:57:22 UTC 2022

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com>
> Subject: Russia attempts mandating installation of root CA on clients for TLS MITM

> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1758773
> 
> I think we'll see a lot more of this from authoritarian regimes in the
> future. For anyone unfamiliar with their existing distributed DPI
> architecture, google "Russia SORM".

Some tech press coverage on this:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-creates-its-own-tls-certificate-authority-to-bypass-sanctions/

Cheers,
-- jra
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