Google, HTTPS, and device compatibility (Google Online Security Blog)
Posted by Ryan Hurst, Product Management, Google Trust ServicesEncryption is a fundamental building block when you’re on a mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible with strong security and privacy. This is why a little over four years ago we created Google Trust Services—our publicly trusted Certificate Authority (CA).The road to becoming a publicly trusted certificate authority is a long one - especially if the certificates you issue will be used by some of the most visited sites on the internet. When we started on this journey, our goal was that within five years our root certificates would be embedded in enough devices that we could do a single transition to our long-term root certificates. There are still a large number of active used devices that…