Russia Creates Its Own TLS Certificate Authority To Bypass Sanctions

Russia has created its own CA to solve website access problems that have been piling up because of sanctions. The sanctions imposed by western companies and governments are preventing Russian sites from renewing existing certificates, causing browsers to block access to sites with expired certificates. If the foreign security certificate is revoked or expires, the Russian state envisions a solution in a domestic certificate authority. The Ministry of Digital Development will give a free analogue. The service is provided to legal entities within 5 working days, according to the Russian public services portal, Gosuslugi. It can take a long time for a new CA to be approved by various companies, which is why they need to be trusted by web browsers. The only web browsers that recognize Russia's new CA as trustworthy are the Russia-based Yandex browser and Atom products, so Russian users are told to use these instead of Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.