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Sure, and there are also StartSSL certs used on systems that don't use OpenSSL.

Do we just nuke every certificate, destroy their business, and force people with secure computers to buy new ones elsewhere even though their servers weren't affected by heartbleed? Because that option sucks too.



As a user, I much prefer that my browser and my OS never ever again show a StartSSL-signed cert as valid over even just one compromised cert being displayed with a fancy lock. How StartSSL is going to achieve that, I don’t care, but neither do I care whether or not they go out of business over this.




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