592984 - Nickname of Valicert root is "RSA Root Certificate 1"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(NSS :: CA Certificates Code, task, P2)

Description

[Stefan Bauer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: NSS Revision: 1.58 $ $Date: 2010/02/16

from certdata.txt

# Certificate "RSA Root Certificate 1"
#
CKA_CLASS CK_OBJECT_CLASS CKO_CERTIFICATE
CKA_TOKEN CK_BBOOL CK_TRUE
CKA_PRIVATE CK_BBOOL CK_FALSE
CKA_MODIFIABLE CK_BBOOL CK_FALSE
CKA_LABEL UTF8 "RSA Root Certificate 1"
CKA_CERTIFICATE_TYPE CK_CERTIFICATE_TYPE CKC_X_509
CKA_SUBJECT MULTILINE_OCTAL


I would assume after reading RSA, that this CA belongs to RSA Security Inc but the issuer is 

Issuer: L=ValiCert Validation Network,O=ValiCert\, Inc.,OU=ValiCert

any chance to get this renamed please?

thanks in advance


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Yeah, this is Bizarre.  
Anyone know (remember?) how this happened? 
Was this because of CA mergers and acquisitions?

Does the Valicert cert belong there?  
What happened to that RSA cert?

Comment 2

[Kathleen Wilson]

This root, "OU = ValiCert Class 3 Policy Validation Authority" is owned by RSA.

It is a legacy, 1024-bit root. 

Email that I have from RSA says: "The Valicert Class 3 root is the signatory of the intermediate RSA Public Root V1 which we use to sign our end customers.

According to email I have from RSA, RSA is in the process of retiring this root. They have not done new signings with this root in over a year.

Comment 3

[:Cykesiopka]

This root was removed in Bug 1021967.