He saved a copy of rootsupd.exe to three different drives and printed the SHA-1 hash on paper. Tomorrow, he would write a new policy: Never let a root certificate die in the dark.
Arjun felt a cold knot in his stomach. The 2011 certificate was the skeleton key for a decade’s worth of encrypted connections. Without it, every file transfer, every authentication handshake between their offline archive and the outside world would be rejected as a forgery. The archive would become a locked mausoleum. microsoft root certificate authority 2011 download
A command prompt flashed. Then a quiet, unceremonious dialog box: He saved a copy of rootsupd