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Bugzilla #988633 Certificate Problem Report

GoDaddy: improperly encoded certificate issued by Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority

RESOLVED GoDaddy
AI Summary

A certificate issued by GoDaddy was found to have an improperly encoded basic constraints extension, which included a default value that should not have been present. This issue caused compatibility problems with Mozilla's certificate validation. GoDaddy acknowledged the problem and committed to changing their certificate issuance practices to avoid similar issues in the future. The case has been resolved with the encoding issue reported as fixed.

Model: gpt-4o-mini Generated: 2026-06-13 13:54 UTC Confidence: 0.90
Chronology
  1. Bug created regarding improper certificate encoding
  2. Discussion on the validity of the encoding and acknowledgment of the issue by GoDaddy
  3. Bug marked as resolved/fixed
Participants
Dana Keeler Kathleen Wilson Ryan Sleevi GoDaddy representative
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