On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:53:50AM -0700, zxzxzx66669--- via 
dev-security-policy wrote:
> Can't the affected CAs decide on their own whether to destroy the
> intermediate CA private key now, or in case the affected intermediate CA
> private key is later compromised, revoke the root CA instead?

No, because there's no reason to believe that a CA would follow through on
their decision, and rapid removal of trust anchors (which is what "revoke
the root CA" means in practice) has all sorts of unpleasant consequences
anyway.

- Matt

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