To inform the community, SSL.com is still on track to acquire VikingCloud Root CA keys in early to mid-March.
On Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 11:12:23 AM UTC-6 Rebecca Kelley wrote: > All, > > SSL.com and VikingCloud are disclosing details for the technical community > in this forum, regarding the acquisition of VikingCloud’s Digital > Certificate Business. > > This acquisition has been broken down into two phases: > > In the first phase, SSL.com has acquired the customer portfolio and will > be transitioning customer certificate management to the SSL.com CA > Hierarchies. VikingCloud will provide SSL.com with cross-signed > certificates and will continue to own and operate the VikingCloud CA Root > Keys and hierarchy until phase two. > > In the second phase, anticipated towards the end of the first quarter of > 2026, VikingCloud will begin to revoke end entity and intermediates > certificates in the VikingCloud CA Hierarchy and SSL.com will be taking > ownership of VikingCloud Root CA Keys. > > We will begin public discussion of the transfer of the VikingCloud CA Root > Keys to SSL.com early in the first quarter of 2026 using this same post > thread. > > Thanks, > Rebecca > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-security-policy/ff0d59c8-ba94-4b8d-859b-07ab098a664dn%40mozilla.org.
