Podcast
Root Causes 467: Decoupling Public from Private Use Cases


Hosted by
Tim Callan
Chief Compliance Officer
Jason Soroko
Fellow
Original broadcast date
February 12, 2025
The past year has seen a great deal of focus on the use of public TLS certificates where private root certificates are actually the appropriate solution. In this episode we discuss the differences between these two use cases and what IT organizations can do about it.
Podcast Transcript
Lightly edited for flow and brevity.
It should not dictate policy. So the decoupling of public and private PKI use cases is what Google is talking about here. There's major implications. So Tim, I'm going to put away my notes, and all I want to do on this podcast right now is talk about maybe a singular use case, which is common. A lot of people use publicly trusted TLS certificates in order to perform client authentication.

