Mar 12, 2022, 01:11 am
Russia is offering its own trusted Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate authority (CA) to replace certificates that need to be renewed by foreign countries. As it is, a pile of sanctions imposed in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is gumming up its citizen’s access to websites.
As it is, Russian sites are stuck, unable to renew their certs because sanctions keep signing authorities in many countries unable to accept payments from Russia, according to BleepingComputer.
TLS – more commonly known as SSL, or TLS/SSL – is a cryptographic protocol that secures the internet by encrypting data sent between your browser, the websites you visit and the website’s server. The certificates keep data transmission private and prevent modification, loss or theft.
According to a notice on Russia’s public service portal, Gosuslugi, as shown in a translated version in this article’s featured art, the certificates will replace foreign security certs if they expire or get yanked by foreign CAs. According to the portal, the service is available to all legal entities operating in Russia, with the certificates delivered to site owners upon request within five working days.
The ‘Digital Iron Curtain’
Over the past two weeks, Russia’s internet services have been cut off by multiple major U.S. internet suppliers, including Cogent Communications, reportedly the second-largest internet carrier servicing Russia. Lumen, another major U.S. internet supplier, followed suit on Tuesday, pushing the country’s citizens behind what some analysts are calling “a new digital Iron Curtain.”
BleepingComputer reported on Thursday that the only web browsers that were recognizing the new CA as trustworthy at the time were the Russia-based Yandex browser and Atom products.
https://threatpost.com/russia-issues-its...ts/178891/
As it is, Russian sites are stuck, unable to renew their certs because sanctions keep signing authorities in many countries unable to accept payments from Russia, according to BleepingComputer.
TLS – more commonly known as SSL, or TLS/SSL – is a cryptographic protocol that secures the internet by encrypting data sent between your browser, the websites you visit and the website’s server. The certificates keep data transmission private and prevent modification, loss or theft.
According to a notice on Russia’s public service portal, Gosuslugi, as shown in a translated version in this article’s featured art, the certificates will replace foreign security certs if they expire or get yanked by foreign CAs. According to the portal, the service is available to all legal entities operating in Russia, with the certificates delivered to site owners upon request within five working days.
The ‘Digital Iron Curtain’
Over the past two weeks, Russia’s internet services have been cut off by multiple major U.S. internet suppliers, including Cogent Communications, reportedly the second-largest internet carrier servicing Russia. Lumen, another major U.S. internet supplier, followed suit on Tuesday, pushing the country’s citizens behind what some analysts are calling “a new digital Iron Curtain.”
BleepingComputer reported on Thursday that the only web browsers that were recognizing the new CA as trustworthy at the time were the Russia-based Yandex browser and Atom products.
https://threatpost.com/russia-issues-its...ts/178891/