On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 3:41:50 PM UTC-4, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Kai Engert:
> 
> > The discovery of any unconstrained and unrevoked intermediate CA
> > certificate that isn't controlled by the root CA organization results in
> > the immediate removal of the root CA from the Mozilla CA list.
> 
> In this case, wouldn't this require the removal of the Entrust root,
> not just the CNNIC root?  Or wasn't the CNNIC SSL sub-CA certificate
> extended beyond 2012?
> 
> Clearly, the removal of an actually relevant root CA from the trust
> store is not going to happen because the user impact and subsequent
> reduction in browser market share.

Please note that the intermediate certificate which Entrust issued to CNNIC 
expired in 2012 and was not extended. Also note that the Basic Constraints had 
a path length of 0; as such the trust would not have extended to intermediates 
issued by CNNIC.
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