Trustico

Trustico
Company type	Private company
Industry	Internet security, Public key infrastructure

Trustico is a certificate authority.

It became notable in March 2018, after its CEO transferred the private keys for 23,000 HTTPS certificates via email (not a secure protocol) to an executive at DigiCert.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

This was followed by the disclosure of a critical security flaw in the Trustico website, after which the website was taken offline.^[6]^[7]

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[1] ttps://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/23000-https-certificates-axed-after-ceo-e-mails-private-keys/

[2] ttp://www.zdnet.com/article/trustico-compromises-own-customers-https-private-keys-in-spat-with-partner/

[3] ttps://www.securityweek.com/23000-digital-certificates-revoked-digicert-trustico-spat

[4] ttps://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/01/trustico_digicert_symantec_spat/

[5] ttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16492284

[6] ttps://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/trustico-website-goes-dark-after-someone-drops-critical-flaw-on-twitter/

[7] ttps://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/01/trustico_website_offline/

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