Three leading European Trust Service Providers – German D-TRUST GmbH, SwissSign AG from Switzerland and Spanish Izenpe S.A. – have launched an initiative to develop a pan-European security system for SSL certificates. This is in response to the “Certificate Transparency” effort announced by Google, which is designed to identify mis-issuance of certificates from Trust Service Providers and to ban them from secure Internet communications. In July last year, all certification authorities represe...