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Google Is Fighting With Symantec Over Encrypting The internet |
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About the organization Symantec:
Type: Business
Sub-Types: Computer, Computer Software, Anti-Phishing, Anti-Spam, Internet, Internet Protection, Internet Security, Malware Protection, Firewall |
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Notable Organizations: Symantec, Techcrunch
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| Google, which has accused Symantec and its partners of misissuing tens of thousands of certificates for encrypted web connections, quietly announced Thursday that it’s downgrading the level and length of trust Chrome will place in certificates issued by Symantec.
Encrypted web connections — HTTPS connections like those on banking sites, login pages or news sites like this one — are enabled by Certificate Authorities, which verify the identity of the website owner and issue them a certificate authenticating that they are who they say they are. Think of a Certificate Authority like a passport agency and the certificates they issue like passports. Without the CA’s authentication of a website owner’s identity, users can’t trust that the site on the other end of their HTTPS connection is really their bank. |
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