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Bugzilla #1731586 Certificate Misissuance

SwissSign: Certificate with key length 16258

RESOLVED FIXED SwissSign AG
AI Summary

SwissSign AG identified a mis-issued S/MIME certificate with a key length of 16258 during an internal review, which violates Mozilla's root store policy. The issue was detected on September 20, 2021, leading to immediate corrective actions, including an emergency configuration change. The certificate was revoked on September 22, 2021, and additional controls were implemented to prevent similar incidents in the future. The root cause was attributed to human error during the configuration process.

Model: gpt-4o-mini Generated: 2026-06-13 20:50 UTC Confidence: 0.90
Chronology
  1. Mis-issued certificate detected during internal review
  2. Certificate revoked
  3. Additional controls implemented
Participants
Mike Guenther Matthias Ben Wilson
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