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{{Short description|UK-based SSL certificate provider}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Trustico
| type = [[Private company]]
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| hq_location_city = [[Croydon]]<ref name="reg23k"/>
| hq_location_country = [[United Kingdom]]<ref name="reg23k"/>
| owner =
| parent =
| key_people =
| industry = [[Internet security]], [[Public key infrastructure]]
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'''Trustico''' is a dedicated [[SSL certificate]] provider, They are headquartered in the [[United Kingdom]].
==History==
The company was founded in 2006 in United Kingdom by Zane Lucas. They gradually spread around the world over the following years. The firm currently operates entirely in the selling of SSL Certificates.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}
On 22 June 2017 Trustico entered a Partnership with [[Comodo Group|Comodo]], a developer of [[Computer security|cyber security]] solutions{{buzzword inline|date=August 2019}} and [[Public key certificate|digital certificates.]]<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comodo-and-trustico-team-up-in-strategic-worldwide-partnership-300478084.html|title=Comodo and Trustico Team Up in Strategic Worldwide Partnership|website=www.prnewswire.com|language=en|access-date=2018-09-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.webhosting.info/strategic-global-partnership-announced-between-comodo-and-trustico/|title=Strategic global partnership announced between Comodo and Trustico - News @ WebHosting.info|date=2017-06-23|work=News @ WebHosting.info|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-US}}</ref>
The company became notable in March 2018, after its CEO transferred the [[private key]]s for 23,000 [[HTTPS]] certificates via [[email]] (a non-secure protocol) to an executive at [[DigiCert]].<ref name="ars23k">{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/23000-https-certificates-axed-after-ceo-e-mails-private-keys/|title=23,000 HTTPS certificates axed after CEO emails private keys|year=2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/trustico-compromises-own-customers-https-private-keys-in-spat-with-partner/|title=Trustico compromises own customers' HTTPS private keys in spat with partner|first=Zack|last=Whittaker|website=[[ZDNet]] }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.securityweek.com/23000-digital-certificates-revoked-digicert-trustico-spat|title=23,000 Digital Certificates Revoked in DigiCert-Trustico Spat - SecurityWeek.Com|website=www.securityweek.com|date=March 2018 }}</ref><ref name="reg23k">{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/01/trustico_digicert_symantec_spat/|title=23,000 HTTPS certs will be axed in next 24 hours after private keys leak|publisher=The Register|access-date=11 September 2018}}</ref> The fact that these private keys had been stored by Trustico suggested that Trustico had been violating the baseline requirements for certificate authorities.<ref name="ars23k" />
This was followed by the disclosure of a critical security flaw – a publicly accessible [[superuser|root]] shell – in the Trustico website, after which the website was taken offline.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/trustico-website-goes-dark-after-someone-drops-critical-flaw-on-twitter/|title=Trustico website goes dark after someone drops critical flaw on Twitter|year=2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/01/trustico_website_offline/|title=HTTPS cert flingers Trustico, SSL Direct go TITSUP after website security blunder blabbed|website=[[The Register]] }}</ref> The result was that thousands of Trustico customers had their security certificates revoked by DigiCert.<ref name="reg23k"/>
== Products ==
* SSL Certificates
== Controversies ==
=== Symantec abandonment, 2018 ===
Following [[Google|Google's]] statement, on 11 September 2017, to distrust [[NortonLifeLock|Symantec's]] SSL Certificates for unsatisfactory security standards.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-distrust-symantec.html|title=Chrome's Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates|work=Google Online Security Blog|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-US}}</ref> Trustico followed suit in abandoning Symantec issued SSL Certificates.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.enterprisetimes.co.uk/2018/02/19/trustico-abandons-symantec-ssl-certificates/|title=Trustico abandons Symantec SSL certificates -|date=2018-02-19|work=Enterprise Times|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180214006519/en/Trustico%C2%AE-Abandons-Symantec%C2%AE-SSL-Certificates|title=Trustico Abandons Symantec SSL Certificates|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en}}</ref> Trustico offered replacements to all Symantec [[Certificate authority|CA]] Certificates issued between June 2016 and December 2017 in compensation for those affected by the abandonment.<ref name=":0" />
=== DigiCert and Trustico spat, 2018 ===
On 2 February Trustico sent an email to DigiCert requesting the revocation of all Symantec Certificates - around 50,000 - managed by DigiCert. DigiCert, who had recently acquired Symantec's<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://security.googleblog.com/2018/03/distrust-of-symantec-pki-immediate.html|title=Distrust of the Symantec PKI: Immediate action needed by site operators|work=Google Online Security Blog|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blog.comodo.com/comodo-news/certain-death-for-symantec-branded-certificates/|title=Symantec to sell SSL certificate and PKI business to DigiCert|date=2017-08-03|work=Comodo News and Internet Security Information|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/business/symantec-sells-ssl-business-to-digicert-for-950m-in-cash-and-30-percent-shares/|title=Symantec Sells SSL Business to DigiCert for $950M in Cash and 30% Shares|work=BleepingComputer|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-us}}</ref> CA business denies the request to mass-revoke the certificates. On 25 February DigiCert terminated its contract with Trustico after Trustico said it would seek a legal opinion on the matter.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/23-000-users-lose-ssl-certificates-in-trustico-digicert-spat/|title=23,000 Users Lose SSL Certificates in Trustico-DigiCert Spat|work=BleepingComputer|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-us}}</ref>
On 27 February DigiCert released a statement claiming they had received an email from Trustico containing over 23,000 private keys before mass emailing Trustico's customers about the security breach.<ref name="ars23k" /><ref name=":1" />
== See also ==
*[[Certificate authority|Certificate Authority]]
*[[Cryptography]]
*[[Computer security|Cyber Security]]
*[[HTTP]]
*[[HTTPS]]
*[[Public key certificate|Public Key Certificate]]
* [[Public Key Infrastructure]]
*[[Transport Layer Security|TLS/SSL]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Certificate authorities]]