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by robtoo 5228 days ago
I would feel a lot more confident about actual compliance if Chrome came on board with this as well.
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For historical reasons (viz. NSS), Mozilla maintains its own list of trusted CAs. Chrome uses whatever is provided by the OS, so they aren't in a position to make the same sorts of demands.

Not that I disagree with the sentiment -- there's just a very specific reason why Mozilla is involved, and it's not simply because they write a web browser.

Chrome could still maintain a blacklist of roots.
One was written after the DigiNotar incident: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=94673
Chrome already has a mechanism to detect a MITM for Google's servers by embedding those servers' public keys into Chrome itself.

Of course, that doesn't stop a company from placing locally-trusted rogue certificates on computers they control, overriding Chromes public-key pinning check. But it means that they can't MITM a connection from your personal laptop when you're on their network.