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What is this mystery certificate?

Q I stumbled upon a new security certificate that has recently appeared in my keychain. Its name starts with ‘member:’, after which there are lots of capital letters and digits. Where has that come from, and is it safe to remove it?

by COLIN ELY

A This mystery certificate has appeared in the login keychains of many – perhaps all – Macs on which the macOS 10.14.4 update has been installed, and was placed there during or shortly after that.

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