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Bugzilla #1914065 Certificate Misissuance

Entrust: S/MIME certificates lacking OU verification

RESOLVED FIXED Entrust
AI Summary

Entrust identified that 1,039 S/MIME Sponsor-Validated certificates were mis-issued due to the lack of verification of the organizational unit (OU) field, violating S/MIME BR requirements. All affected certificates have been revoked, and Entrust has committed to training personnel on updated compliance policies to prevent future occurrences. The incident was resolved with all action items completed, and a full incident report will be made available.

Model: gpt-4o-mini Generated: 2026-06-13 21:41 UTC Confidence: 1.00
Chronology
  1. All affected customers were notified of the mis-issued certificates.
  2. Revocation of mis-issued certificates completed.
  3. Incident report closure summary prepared.
Participants
Bruce Morton
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