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Re:Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed by 0xxon on Monday October 19, 2020 @01:41PM (#24828766)
The fact that some root stores/browsers don't trust some CAs is actually quite common. There will be some cross-sign from another CA that is trusted in Firefox in this case.

Stuff like this is quite common; we published a paper on this recently if you are interested in details: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08772

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Re:Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed by sleevi on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:26PM (#24829297)
https://medium.com/@sleevi_/path-building-vs-path-verifying-... also has some utilities to visualize this using JS to explore these relationships, and understand the code tradeoffs.
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