Timeline for Browsers silently adding trusted root certificates in Windows
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| Dec 6, 2022 at 14:42 | vote | accept | BoppreH | ||
| Dec 4, 2013 at 13:20 | comment | added | BoppreH | Thanks @cmorse, but this doesn't explain why the certificate only appears the moment the website is visited. | |
| Dec 4, 2013 at 2:12 | comment | added | cmorse | @BoppreH: Microsoft regularly releases updates to the root certificates through Windows Update: microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38918 | |
| Dec 2, 2013 at 23:42 | comment | added | BoppreH |
The cert is not present in a clean installation, so it's not an issue of being added back. But the site you linked mention an alternative way, which could be the answer: when you try to validate a certificate that chains to a certification authority that is trusted by Microsoft but it is not in your root store, Windows Vista will silently add that certification authority. Doesn't explain the behavior in the Windows XP machine, but it's a start.
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| Dec 2, 2013 at 20:44 | history | answered | mcgyver5 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |