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DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA

DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA is a root CA certificate operated by DigiCert (RSA 2048, valid until 2031-11-10, SHA-256 7431E5F4). As of the latest CCADB data it is trusted for TLS server authentication by 2 of 4 major root stores: Apple, Microsoft.

Data updated Nov 10, 2026

Root store status

Root store	Status	Trusted for TLS	Distrust for TLS after	Constrained
Chrome	Removed Removed	No	—	No
Mozilla	Included Included	No	—	No
Apple	Included Included	Yes	—	No
Microsoft	Included Included	Yes	—	No

The CCADB lists EV policy OID 2.23.140.1.1, 2.16.840.1.114412.1.3.0.2, 2.16.840.1.114412.2.1, 2.23.140.1.3 for this root, but Mozilla does not mark it as EV-enabled.

Removed Chrome

Status: Removed

Included Mozilla

Status: Included
Trust bits: Email
EV policy OIDs: not EV-enabled
First included in: NSS 3.11.8 / Firefox 2
Inclusion bug: #364568

Included Apple

Status: Included
Trust bits: serverAuth, clientAuth, emailProtection

Included Microsoft

Status: Included
Trusted EKUs: Server Authentication, Client Authentication, Code Signing, Secure Email, Time Stamping

"Trusted for TLS" means the store includes the root with the server-authentication trust bit (Mozilla "Websites", Apple serverAuth, Microsoft Server Authentication EKU). Microsoft "NotBefore" means only certificates issued before a cutoff date are still trusted. "Constrained" means the store applies extra restrictions.

Details

CA owner: DigiCert
Subject: CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA,OU=www.digicert.com,O=DigiCert Inc,C=US
SHA-256: 7431E5F4C3C1CE4690774F0B61E05440883BA9A01ED00BA6ABD7806ED3B118CF
SHA-1 (Windows thumbprint): 5FB7EE0633E259DBAD0C4C9AE6D38F1A61C7DC25
SPKI SHA-256: 5A889647220E54D6BD8A16817224520BB5C78E58984BD570506388B9DE0F075F
Valid from: 2006-11-10
Expires: 2031-11-10
Key: RSA 2048
Signature algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
Serial number: 2AC5C266A0B409B8F0B79F2AE462577
Country: US
Trust bits (CCADB): Server Authentication, Client Authentication, Code Signing, Secure Email, Time Stamping
EV policy OIDs (CCADB): 2.23.140.1.1, 2.16.840.1.114412.1.3.0.2, 2.16.840.1.114412.2.1, 2.23.140.1.3 · TLS EV capable: Yes
Test websites: valid: https://ev-root.chain-demos.digicert.com · expired: https://ev-root-expired.chain-demos.digicert.com · revoked: https://ev-root-revoked.chain-demos.digicert.com
CCADB record: A000120
PEM: digicert-high-assurance-ev-root-ca.pem

Look up this certificate on crt.sh

Intermediate CAs issued by this root

The CCADB lists 94 intermediate CA certificates signed directly by DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA: 65 currently valid, 23 expired and 6 revoked (revoked includes those whose parent was revoked).

Showing 20 of 94: valid certificates first, newest first. Each name links to its crt.sh entry by SHA-256; an arrow marks a cross-certificate for another root on this site.

Intermediate	Operated by	Expires	Status
DigiCert Assured ID Root G2 → DigiCert Assured ID Root G2	DigiCert	2031-11-09	Valid
DigiCert Global Root G2 → DigiCert Global Root G2	DigiCert	2031-11-08	Valid
DigiCert Global Root G2 → DigiCert Global Root G2	DigiCert	2031-11-08	Valid
DigiCert TLS RSA4096 Root G5 → DigiCert TLS RSA4096 Root G5	DigiCert	2031-11-09	Valid
DigiCert Trusted Root G4 → DigiCert Trusted Root G4	DigiCert	2031-11-09	Valid
Apple Public EV Server RSA CA 3 - G1	Apple Inc.	2030-04-10	Valid
HydrantID EV SSL CA D1	DigiCert	2031-03-29	Valid
CrowdStrike Global EV CA G2	DigiCert	2031-03-29	Valid
CrowdStrike Global EV CA	DigiCert	2031-03-29	Valid
DigiCert High Assurance TLS Hybrid ECC SHA256 2020 CA1	DigiCert	2031-03-29	Valid
DigiCert High Assurance TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1	DigiCert	2031-03-29	Valid
DigiCert High Assurance CA-3b	DigiCert	2031-03-29	Valid
HydrantID EV SSL CA D1	DigiCert	2031-03-03	Valid
CrowdStrike Global EV CA G2	DigiCert	2031-03-03	Valid
DigiCert High Assurance TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1	DigiCert	2030-12-16	Valid
DigiCert High Assurance TLS Hybrid ECC SHA256 2020 CA1	DigiCert	2030-12-16	Valid
DigiCert High Assurance CA-3b	DigiCert	2031-11-09	Valid
Apple Public EV Server RSA CA 2 - G1	Apple Inc.	2030-04-10	Valid
Thawte EV ECC CN CA G2	DigiCert	2030-03-13	Valid
DigiCert Secure Site Pro EV ECC CN CA G3	DigiCert	2030-03-13	Valid

Cross-signed versions

5 certificate(s) in the CCADB have the same subject and public key as DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA but a different issuer. A server can send one of them so that clients which trust the issuing root, but not DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA, can still build a chain.

Signed by	CA owner	Expires	Status
Entrust.net Certification Authority (2048) crt.sh	Sectigo	2016-11-04	Expired
Baltimore CyberTrust Root crt.sh	DigiCert	2019-07-25	Expired
Baltimore CyberTrust Root crt.sh	DigiCert	2021-06-18	Expired
DigiCert Transition RSA Root crt.sh	DigiCert	2022-11-04	Expired
Baltimore CyberTrust Root crt.sh	DigiCert	2025-05-10	Expired

CRL and OCSP addresses

In the root certificate

DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA itself contains no CRL Distribution Points and no OCSP (Authority Information Access) extension. That is normal for a root: clients trust it directly and do not check its own revocation status.

Full CRL this CA publishes (CCADB)

http://crl3.digicert.com/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crl
http://crl4.digicert.com/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crl
http://crl.digicert-cn.com/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crl
http://crl.digicert.cn/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crl

Used by the intermediates it issued

Addresses found in the CRL Distribution Points and OCSP fields of the 65 valid intermediates signed by DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA; the number in brackets is how many of them use each address.

CRL: http://crl3.digicert.com/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crl (29)
CRL: http://crl.digicert.cn/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crl (14)
CRL: http://crl.digicert-cn.com/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crl (13)
CRL: http://crl4.digicert.com/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crl (11)
CRL: http://crl.digicert-validation.com/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crl (2)
OCSP: http://ocsp.digicert.com (36)
OCSP: http://ocsp.digicert.cn (14)
OCSP: http://ocsp.dcocsp.cn (8)
OCSP: http://ocsp.digicert-cn.com (5)
OCSP: http://ocsp.digicert-validation.com (2)

What happens when it expires

DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA is valid until 2031-11-10, about 5.0 years after this data snapshot (2026-11-10). From that day, browsers and operating systems that check trust-anchor expiry stop accepting chains that end at this root, so any certificate that can only chain to it fails validation. Android is a known exception: it does not enforce the expiry date of trust anchors.

Check whether your device trusts it

Each platform keeps its own root store. The commands below look up DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA by common name (DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA) or fingerprint. The store status in each heading comes from the CCADB snapshot; your device can differ if it is out of date or managed by an administrator.

macOS (Apple store: Included · Trusted for TLS)

Search the system roots keychain by common name. -Z prints the SHA-256 hash, which must match the fingerprint on the last line.

security find-certificate -a -c "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA" -Z \
  /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain | grep "SHA-256"
# SHA-256 hash: 7431E5F4C3C1CE4690774F0B61E05440883BA9A01ED00BA6ABD7806ED3B118CF

Windows (Microsoft store: Included · Trusted for TLS)

Windows identifies roots by SHA-1 thumbprint. It installs third-party roots on demand through Automatic Root Certificates Update, so "not found" can also mean the root has not been needed yet; certutil -generateSSTFromWU roots.sst downloads Microsoft's full list.

certutil -verifystore Root 5FB7EE0633E259DBAD0C4C9AE6D38F1A61C7DC25

Linux (ca-certificates follows Mozilla: Included)

Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and RHEL build their ca-certificates package from Mozilla's root store. Use trust list on p11-kit systems, or search the PEM bundle on Debian and Ubuntu.

# Fedora / RHEL / Arch (p11-kit)
trust list --filter=ca-anchors | grep -iF -A2 "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA"
# Debian / Ubuntu (ca-certificates)
openssl crl2pkcs7 -nocrl -certfile /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt \
  | openssl pkcs7 -print_certs -noout | grep -iF "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA"

Java

Java ships its own cacerts keystore; JDK 9 and later accept -cacerts and the default store password is changeit. Search for the SHA-256 fingerprint in colon form.

keytool -list -cacerts -storepass changeit | grep -i "74:31:E5:F4:C3:C1:CE:46:90:77:4F:0B:61:E0:54:40:88:3B:A9:A0:1E:D0:0B:A6:AB:D7:80:6E:D3:B1:18:CF"

Android

Android's system store is maintained by Google separately from the four CCADB stores above. Open Settings → Security & privacy → More security settings → Encryption & credentials → Trusted credentials → System (menu names vary by vendor and version) and look for DigiCert Inc → DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA.

Which root does my site chain to?

List the chain your server sends and compare the last issuer with this root; the fingerprint check confirms a local copy.

Download PEM

# show subject (s:) and issuer (i:) of every certificate the server sends
openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 -servername example.com -showcerts </dev/null 2>/dev/null \
  | grep -E '^ *[0-9]+ s:|^ *i:'
# subject and SHA-256 fingerprint of the downloaded PEM file
openssl x509 -in digicert-high-assurance-ev-root-ca.pem -noout -subject -fingerprint -sha256
# sha256 Fingerprint=74:31:E5:F4:C3:C1:CE:46:90:77:4F:0B:61:E0:54:40:88:3B:A9:A0:1E:D0:0B:A6:AB:D7:80:6E:D3:B1:18:CF

FAQ

Is DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA trusted by Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Windows?

As of 2026-11-10, Apple, Microsoft trust it for TLS server authentication; Chrome, Mozilla do not.

When does DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA expire?

On 2031-11-10, about 5.0 years after the 2026-11-10 data snapshot.

How many intermediate certificates has DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA issued?

The CCADB lists 94: 65 valid, 23 expired and 6 revoked. The newest valid one is DigiCert Assured ID Root G2, valid until 2031-11-09.

Is DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA cross-signed?

Yes. The CCADB has 5 cross-certificate(s) with its subject and key, signed by Entrust.net Certification Authority (2048), Baltimore CyberTrust Root, DigiCert Transition RSA Root; 0 of them are still valid.

Other roots from DigiCert

DigiCert Assured ID Root CA RSA 2048 · 2031-11-10
DigiCert Assured ID Root G2 RSA 2048 · 2038-01-15
DigiCert Assured ID Root G3 ECDSA P-384 · 2038-01-15
DigiCert ECC P384 Root G5 ECDSA P-384 · 2046-01-14
DigiCert Global Root CA RSA 2048 · 2031-11-10
DigiCert Global Root G2 RSA 2048 · 2038-01-15
DigiCert Global Root G3 ECDSA P-384 · 2038-01-15
DigiCert RSA4096 Root G5 RSA 4096 · 2046-01-14
DigiCert TLS ECC P384 Root G5 ECDSA P-384 · 2046-01-14
DigiCert TLS RSA4096 Root G5 RSA 4096 · 2046-01-14
DigiCert Trusted Root G4 RSA 4096 · 2038-01-15
QuoVadis Root CA 1 G3 RSA 4096 · 2042-01-12
QuoVadis Root CA 2 RSA 4096 · 2031-11-24
QuoVadis Root CA 2 G3 RSA 4096 · 2042-01-12
QuoVadis Root CA 3 RSA 4096 · 2031-11-24
QuoVadis Root CA 3 G3 RSA 4096 · 2042-01-12
QuoVadis TLS ECC P384 Root G4 ECDSA P-384 · 2048-03-09
QuoVadis TLS RSA 4096 Root G4 RSA 4096 · 2048-03-09
Verizon Global Root CA RSA 2048 · 2034-07-30

Sources

CCADB — Resources (TLS Server Authentication report, All Included Root Certificate Trust Bit Settings)
CCADB — All Certificate Information (root and intermediate), CSV V5
CCADB — Mozilla Included CA Certificate Report
CCADB — Chrome / Mozilla / Apple / Microsoft TLS Server Authentication CSV