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by lmm 2116 days ago
TLS is not decentralised, it's hierarchical. There are a fairly small number of root CAs, and an even smaller number of browser makers who define their trusted lists.
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Just the Mozilla CA list has more than a hundred CAs ... https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/mozilla/IncludedCACert...

And you can install your trust root if you want, for example I can't find any Russian ones in that list, so probably the Russian government uses internal ones. (Their tax authority interestingly uses Sectigo a CA from the UK.)