Michael Ströder wrote, On 2008-12-30 04:49:
> Ben Bucksch wrote:
>> If we decide that a CA does not operate properly,.but we don't want to
>> cause problems for users, another option would be to shorten the expiry
>> date of the relevant root certs to one year or less.
>>
>> Technically, that should be possible. The cert is public anyways.
> 
> But the accompanying private key is (hopefully) not public.
> 
> Please, we shouldn't mess around with PKIX cert validation mechs. Just
> removing the trust flags is sufficient.

Before any more people promote the removal of trust flags, I suggest you
read https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470897#c11
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