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Bugzilla #1917405 Certificate Misissuance

Sectigo: S/MIME OV Mis-issuance

RESOLVED FIXED Sectigo
AI Summary

This case involves a reported misissuance of an S/MIME certificate by Sectigo for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. The complainant highlighted issues with the state and organization identifier fields in the certificate, claiming they did not comply with S/MIME baseline requirements. Sectigo acknowledged the concerns but defended their issuance, stating that the identifiers were correct according to their interpretation of the regulations. They agreed to revoke the certificates as a precaution while discussions about the clarity of the requirements continue.

Model: gpt-4o-mini Generated: 2026-06-13 20:56 UTC Confidence: 0.90
Chronology
  1. Initial complaint filed regarding S/MIME certificate misissuance.
  2. Sectigo acknowledged the complaint and began investigation.
  3. Sectigo concluded investigation, marking the issue as not an incident.
  4. Sectigo requested to close the bug after determining the need for clarification in the SBRs.
Participants
Q Misell Martijn Katerbarg Erin Shepherd Roman Fischer
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