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Cloudflare seeks public CA status and plans to serve post-quantum certificates

blog.cloudflare.com 8 min read Editor score 7/10

Cloudflare has applied to major root programs and agreed to acquire a broadly trusted root from GlobalSign, with post-quantum certificates as a stated goal. A new large-scale certificate issuer could affect the trust infrastructure and migration paths web services depend on.

What: Cloudflare plans to become a public certificate authority and has applied to four browser and platform root programs.
How: An acquired GlobalSign root offers broad existing trust-store coverage, while a new root is intended for future ecosystem policies.
Why it matters: Cloudflare also plans to serve post-quantum certificates, targeting Chrome’s Quantum-resistant Root Program.

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