Microsoft Disables Support for Chinese Digital Certificate Providers WoSign, StartCom

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Microsoft has announced it will not support

digital certificates issued by Chinese outfits WoSign and StartCom as "they failed to maintain the standards required by company's Trusted Root Programme".

"[Microsoft has] Observed unacceptable security practices including back-dating SHA-1 certificates, mis-issuances of certificates, accidental certificate revocation, duplicate certificate serial numbers and multiple CAB Forum Baseline Requirements (BR) violations," the company said in a post on Wednesday.

The Microsoft Trusted Root Certificate Programme supports the distribution of qualifying root certificates in Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products and services.

The decision means Windows 10 will not trust any new certificates from these Chinese Certificate Authorities (CAs) after September 2017 and allow "natural deprecation of WoSign and StartCom certificates by setting a "Not Before a date of 26 September 2017", the company said in the post.

Google, Apple and Mozilla binned WoSign certificates in 2016.