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Re:Shortening the Let's Encrypt Chain of Trust by Traubenfuchs on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:11AM (#36677456)
Where do low level (eg Android platform) devs pull root certificates from? Who governs that list?
Re:Shortening the Let's Encrypt Chain of Trust by ZiiS on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:55AM (#36677789)
Android itself (I.e. Google) maintain thier own list; they manage it well IMHO but made a catastrofically bad desision to never update it outside OS versions (they have fixed this in the next release).
Re:Shortening the Let's Encrypt Chain of Trust by tialaramex on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:59AM (#36680352)
In principle whoever is building the Android system can choose whatever roots they want. In practice the Android Project is a Google project, and follows Google's policies.

Also in practice, Google's policies strongly resemble Mozilla's. Mozilla's root programme is overseen by mozilla.dev.security.policy, a public group. So, to some extent the answer to "Who governs that list?" is you do, much as (if you live in a democracy) it's your fault that your government is terrible. You could work hard to improve things. But, you probably won't.