Digital trust firm eMudhra said on Thursday, October 22, that its board had decided to exit the global Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificate business after Google, Apple and Mozilla moved to distrust eight of its certificates in their browsers.
\n\nThe company said its digital signature certificates, eSign and other signing services, including those in India, would continue. Its enterprise public key infrastructure products, emCA and CertiNext, the emSigner suite, and identity and authentication products SecurePass and emAS will also remain operational.
\n\nV. Srinivasan, chairman of eMudhra, said the company revoked the affected certificate authorities (CAs) within 14 hours of discovering the issue. He said no end-entity certificates had been issued by them, its infrastructure had not been breached and no data had been lost.
\n\nSrinivasan said SSL/TLS contributed about 1% of the company’s global revenue. He cited rising data sovereignty and compliance requirements, as well as the availability of free SSL/TLS certificates, as factors behind the decision to exit the business.
\n\nThe company also said the attention the incident received on social media was disproportionate to the size of the business.
\n\neMudhra described the incident as a “one-off error” and a “process lapse” that occurred on a specific…
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