About
Digital trust intelligence, built and maintained by Sectigo
rootcerts.com converts changes in certificates, PKI, trust stores, standards, cryptography and automation into role-specific operational guidance. It is deliberately broader than any one vendor's product portfolio.
Product principles
How we publish
Source first
Every material assertion about a standard, ballot, policy or deadline links to a classified primary source.
Status is part of the information
A proposal is never visually indistinguishable from an effective requirement.
Publication dates ≠ effective dates
Every change record separates proposal, approval, publication, effective and next transition dates.
Progressive disclosure
Readers should never have to choose between oversimplification and an RFC.
Explain systems, not vocabulary
We show how ACME proves control and where it fails, not just what the acronym stands for.
Actions over fear
Urgency comes from dated milestones and operational consequence, not from countdowns to unknowable events.
Education before conversion
Core knowledge, calculators, timelines and standards tracking stay ungated.
Human editorial accountability
AI may assist with monitoring, comparison, tagging and drafting. It never publishes standards guidance on its own.
Corrections
When we get something wrong
Material corrections are stated on the page itself with the date and the nature of the change. Records carry a last-verified date and a named reviewer so you can judge freshness before acting on them. If a date, status or interpretation here conflicts with the primary source, the primary source wins — and we want to hear about it.
What this is not
Non-goals
- A replacement for Sectigo product documentation
- A customer-support portal
- A generic cybersecurity news publication
- An SSL-certificate storefront
- A repository of unedited AI content
- A speculative quantum-computing prediction site
- A gated asset library built to collect email addresses