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shrubble | on: eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
How much did they make over the years? Is it true that they issued 60 million SSL certificates (I read this but couldn't verify it)?
kbaker | parent | next
> There were no end entity certificates issued out of the affected CA’s.

What does this mean from the press release? Were they only issuing other chained intermediates? Or did they never issue any ECC certificates from these at all, and everyone is paying the price?

I wonder if big roots with chained intermediates will now need to have serious pressure on their downstream intermediates to re-prove their need to exist. I know RHEL and Debian's strategy (if not others) was to pull the Comodo AAA Services root as well ...

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Reubachi | parent
# of issued leaf certs isn't a great indicator of propagation, user-impact, revenue etc.

1. 59 million of those 60 million could be very short validity, duplicate enrollments from same private key/csr, etc. 2. I'm still not certain that that figure isn't including for example private roots/intermediates they've issued from.

That said they're a low volume (in terms of root/int) provider so I don't think the impact of them exiting will be great.