User:Hecker/CA Certificate List

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About This Document

This is a unofficial working document maintained in connection with evaluating CA requests to have certificates pre-loaded into Firefox and related Mozilla-based software. This document reflects the personal knowledge and opinions of the author(s); it is not an official publication of the Mozilla Foundation. The document is also incomplete: in particular, it does not contain information on all "legacy" CAs already pre-loaded into Mozilla-based software prior to Firefox 1.0; please feel free to add such information where appropriate.

When distributing Firefox, Thunderbird, and related software the Mozilla Corporation includes with such software a default set of X.509v3 certificates for various Certification Authorities (CAs). The certificates included by default are marked as being "trusted" for various purposes, so that Mozilla can use them automatically to verify certificates for SSL servers, S/MIME email users, etc., without having to ask users for further permission or information.

(Note: Yes, this is a wiki, and so anyone can edit the "status" field to try to mark a CA as being approved or reject, edit links to CA certificates to point to the wrong certificates, and so on. However it's pointless to do this, since this page is for information only, with the real approval decision, certificate data, etc., based on Frank Hecker's comments in the related bug. In the event that this information is ever published officially it will be done on the regular mozilla.org site under editorial control, with information re-checked prior to publication.)

Certification Authorities Summary Status

The table below provides summary information about CAs whose certificates are included in Firefox, etc., or whose certificates have been requested to be included. See the next section for more detailed information.

Certification Authority Related bug(s) Status
ACCV 274100 Pending
CAcert 215243 Pending
Camerfirma 261778, 275576
Certipost E-Trust 239488 Processing
Comodo 249710, 252132 Approved
DFN-PCA (part of DFN-CERT) 239485 Processing

Certification Authorities Detailed Information

(To be supplied.)