Mozilla products including its popular Firefox browser will stop trusting an unknown number of SSL certificates. The move is part of the organization’s efforts that started in September to force certificate authorities to stop using 1024-bit certificates. In Firefox 36, which is currently in beta testing but is scheduled to be released on Feb. 24, will no longer trust SSL certificates that chain back to one of those roots. Owners of SSL-enabled websites will also be impacted if they don’t update the certificate chain on their Web servers to include a 2048-bit intermediate.”]

