FYI, G3 is the only one listed with the issue, the others are fine AFAIK. But if you don’t trust eMudhra at all after that, then that’s fair.
Edit: Actually it’s the intermediate certs that are compromised, the roots are still fine, but many of them come from the G3 root cert (and Sectigo’s AAA Certificate Services)
Well you can’t sign new certs (with the current date) with an expired root/intermediate cert, but the root/intermediate cert expiring doesn’t strictly invalidate the already signed certs.
But I was more talking about the end-user certificates in the previous comment.
It appears so, inside India anyway.
I saw some of the compromised certs were code signing ones, but it seems the “DSC” certificate infrastructure they advertise for documents is something else entirely (“issued under the Government of India guidelines”).
The kind of cert that lets you sign a pdf and have everyone see it pop up in adobe reader won’t be a thing anymore since they’ll end their CA activities. (Chrome already removed their root cert, many other places will have done the same. Who wants certs that don’t work everywhere?)
Also, given the state of emudhras online presence I saw when I just looked all that up, I’m not convinced the company will be around much longer either. One of the first domains I landed on had a cert that expired in August. Another domain is completely dead.
FYI, G3 is the only one listed with the issue, the others are fine AFAIK. But if you don’t trust eMudhra at all after that, then that’s fair.
Edit: Actually it’s the intermediate certs that are compromised, the roots are still fine, but many of them come from the G3 root cert (and Sectigo’s AAA Certificate Services)
Source: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
Oh, thanks for that! 😊 I just heard that they quit the TLS business all together.
Yeah, my understanding was they’re not issuing new certificates, but the current ones are still valid until they’ve expired.
Recently learned that root CA don’t actually expire. Yes, they have an expiration date, but nothing pays attention to it for a CA.
It depends on the OS. Some do start to warn you about invalid certs for all certs signed by the root CA, but you can often click continue anyway.
Well you can’t sign new certs (with the current date) with an expired root/intermediate cert, but the root/intermediate cert expiring doesn’t strictly invalidate the already signed certs.
But I was more talking about the end-user certificates in the previous comment.
They closed shop entirely, so there won’t be any new certs signed anyway
entirely? aren’t they still signing business documents?
It appears so, inside India anyway.
I saw some of the compromised certs were code signing ones, but it seems the “DSC” certificate infrastructure they advertise for documents is something else entirely (“issued under the Government of India guidelines”).
The kind of cert that lets you sign a pdf and have everyone see it pop up in adobe reader won’t be a thing anymore since they’ll end their CA activities. (Chrome already removed their root cert, many other places will have done the same. Who wants certs that don’t work everywhere?)
Also, given the state of emudhras online presence I saw when I just looked all that up, I’m not convinced the company will be around much longer either. One of the first domains I landed on had a cert that expired in August. Another domain is completely dead.