In early November, one of the largest certification centers in the world, the Japanese company announced a plan to make a new mass memory of SSL / LS certificates from Russian sites. These certificates are a digital "passport" of the site, it confirms its authenticity, and guarantees that the user is connected to the resource he wants, not to forge one, and encrypts traffic between the browser and the server, making it inaccessible to interception. Without a valid certificate, foreign browsers refuse to open the site or display an insecure connection warning. Now we are talking about the withdrawal of dozens of certificates of various organizations, including those on the EU sanctions list. But since the summer there have been several waves of certificate withdrawals. In addition to GlobalSign, certificates were also revoked by the Greek certification center HarICA, where several Russian organizations with previously unrevoked certificates. In total, foreign centers withdrew from 1,300 Russian organizations. RBC channel at max.