After reviewing system certficates and evaluating them, even though they're trusted, they appear to be foreign and suspicious to me. not seeing any association with aspecific app., I would like to delete them from MacBookAir. How? Thanks
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.0.x), Viewed from keychain
This is additional information to my original query. I hope this helps for those who may have experienced the same issue and found a solution other than to blindly follow the sheep/Apple. I love Apple products as I'm sure you do, but that doesn't mean we have to "settle" for certificates we know nothing about.
After opening Keychain Access and viewing the System Roots Certificates, I find one entitled, “China internet information Center EV Certificates Root”. It evaluates as “Generic (Certificate chain validation only).
There are four more that appear suspicious to me also. One is listed as “TÜBITAK UEKAE Kök Sertifica Hizmet Saglayicisi - Sürüm 3” in addition to two others with the same name, “TÜRKTRUST Elektronik Sertifika Hizmet Saglayicisi”. One expires Sep16, 2015 and the other Dec 22, 2017
Although I make an assumption that I must have clicked on something that enabled these, I cannot say with certainty whether I did nor not. They look suspicious to me and I’m reluctant to use the keychain and I’m very tempted to remove Apple Pay from my iPhone because of these.
Just because they are valid, one never knows what is truly “necessary” and why they are there. Seriously, if these kinds of certificates are valid, I would like to know what websites use them so I can avoid them in the future.
Does anyone have any comment or suggestions regarding these? Thanks.
OK—I would like to assume you're correct. Let us also assume I visited a site and authorized something I thought was legitimate; but subsequently Im not sure it is Legitimate. Although according to the Apple validation, these certificates are valid, I question the "necessity" to leave these certificates in tact, given several are Turkish and one is from China. Is anyone familiar with these, from where did they come, why do they exist, are they really necessary; and if not, why should they remain in my keychain? Thanks.
I'm with you, RitterVon.
These most definitely look shady as h*ll, I have not been able to find out what purpose they could possibly serve, nobody can explain why these need to be there, and I am mystified why they can't be deleted or how I could possibly do so. (I'll happily take the risk of deleting strange Chinese, Turkish, and Russian root certificates from my Keychain, thank you very much).
None of the above responses were remotely helpful.
And then there was silence! Just curios as to whether this got resolved? I too have these same certificates and they look shady. Not sure why deleting them would be a bad thing? Buehler....Buehler...
Thanks--I'm sorry, it appears I mis-typed. The certificates I would like to delete are in "Root Certificates". I unlocked the System lock, but the edit/delete functions are grayed out. Can you please try again?
Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access, select the certificate, and then either Edit/Delete or hit the Delete key.
If you delete root certificates, you will certainly wreck your system.
Do not Delete Linc Davis is absolutely correct about wrecking you system listen to his advice
How to delete system root certficates
