The USERTRUST Network

[David E. Ross]

In Thunderbird 8.0 and SeaMonkey 2.5, I see 10 site certificates added
as exceptions, all issued by The USERTRUST Network and tracing back to
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware. Why was this done?

The excepted domains include addons.mozill.org, several instances of
login.yahoo.com, and www.google.com. For the addons.mozilla.org
exception -- and apparently the other exceptions since they all trace to
the same UTN-USERFirst-Hardware -- OU is <http://www.usertrust.com>.
That domain is owned by Comodo. Why is there not a Comodo root
certificate for this instead of a bunch of site certificate exceptions?

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[Eddy Nigg]

On 11/26/2011 02:15 AM, From David E. Ross:

> In Thunderbird 8.0 and SeaMonkey 2.5, I see 10 site certificates added
> as exceptions, all issued by The USERTRUST Network and tracing back to
> UTN-USERFirst-Hardware. Why was this done?

Those were the (infamous) certificates that were explicitly added and
distrusted upon request by Comodo.

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[David E. Ross]

On 11/25/11 4:32 PM, Eddy Nigg wrote:
> On 11/26/2011 02:15 AM, From David E. Ross:
>> In Thunderbird 8.0 and SeaMonkey 2.5, I see 10 site certificates added
>> as exceptions, all issued by The USERTRUST Network and tracing back to
>> UTN-USERFirst-Hardware. Why was this done?
>
> Those were the (infamous) certificates that were explicitly added and
> distrusted upon request by Comodo.
>

Aha! I looked at the certificate data but not at the trust.

Thanks.