Fw: StartCom temination announcement

[Hanno Böck]

I guess it's interesting for the community, this is the message I
just got as a former StartCom customer.

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 06:24:44 +0000
From: StartCom CertMaster <cmsm...@startcomca.com>
Subject: StartCom temination announcement


StartCom temination announcement

This is an automatically generated email, please do not reply.

Dear customer,

As you are surely aware, the browser makers distrusted StartCom around
a year ago and therefore all the end entity certificates newly issued
by StartCom are not trusted by default in browsers.

The browsers imposed some conditions in order for the certificates to
be re-accepted. While StartCom believes that these conditions have been
met, it appears there are still certain difficulties forthcoming.
Considering this situation, the owners of StartCom have decided to
terminate the company as a Certification Authority as mentioned in
Startcom´s website.

StartCom will stop issuing new certificates starting from January 1st,
2018 and will provide only CRL and OCSP services for two more years.

StartCom would like to thank you for your support during this difficult
time.

StartCom is contacting some other CAs to provide you with the
certificates needed. In case you don´t want us to provide you an
alternative, please, contact us at certm...@startcomca.com

Please let us know if you need any further assistance with the
transition process. We deeply apologize for any inconveniences that
this may cause.

Best regards,

StartCom Certification Authority


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[marcan]

I just got the same email.

> StartCom is contacting some other CAs to provide you with the
> certificates needed. In case you don´t want us to provide you an
> alternative, please, contact us at certm...@startcomca.com

So I take it this is marketroidese for "unless you ask us not to, we're
going to sell your e-mail address to other CAs". Lovely.

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