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14 July 2020
As previously announced, the validity period of SSL certificates will be further limited to 1 year as of September 1st, 2020. Apple was the first browser to announce that as of September 1st, 2020, it will limit the term of accepted SSL certificates to 398 days. Recently, Google and Mozilla also announced that they will no longer accept newly issued ...
31 May 2020
As previously announced, the Sectigo AddTrust External CA Root certificate expired on May 30, 2020. Because all Sectigo certificates have been cross-signed with the newer UserTrust RSA Certification Authority root for some time now, this change only has consequences when using outdated systems. What is the cause? SSL certificates are signed by a root certificate from a CA, such ...
30 April 2020
In November 2017, it was announced that Symantec had sold its SSL division to DigiCert. From that moment on, all Symantec brands, namely Symantec, Thawte, GeoTrust and RapidSSL, were covered by DigiCert. These brands have been issued by DigiCert since 2017. Now they go a step further: the Symantec SSL brand becomes DigiCert SSL as of April 30, 2020. The ...
30 March 2020
The year 2018 was a turning point for the use of SSL, with HTTPS becoming the standard. This trend has continued - In October 2019 no less than 94% of all visited web pages in Chrome were loaded on all platforms via HTTPS. Next to positive, these developments also have unintended negative consequences that grow steadily. What else happened in 2019, ...
30 March 2020
At the end of 2018, Mozilla and Google announced to phase out support for the outdated encryption protocols TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1. by early 2020. However, due to the current situation with COVID-19 (Corona), they have decided to postpone the phasing out of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Firefox and Chrome for the time ...
25 February 2020
Apple is going to limit the allowed validity of SSL certificates to a maximum of 13 months. From September 1, 2020, certificates with a duration of more than 13 months are no longer supported in the Safari browser. Chances are that other browsers will also start applying this measure, despite the fact that a proposal for an industry-wide change ...
21 January 2020
It has recently become known that a number of Sectigo EV certificates contain information that is not allowed. These certificates must be replaced at very short notice in order to remain trusted by browsers. This development has no impact on the safety of the affected certificates, but it does mean that many organisations have to replace their certificates very quickly ...
19 December 2019
As of December 15, 2019, Sectigo will change the use of OU fields for all new Sectigo certificates. From this date, it is no longer permitted to include non-organization-related information in an OU field. What is the OU-field? OU stands for Organizational Unit, this is a field in the Subject information in an SSL certificate. The Subject ...
15 August 2019
A lot is happening with regard to the display of HTTP and HTTPS by the different browsers. They are working on improving the recognisability of secure websites and the strive to HTTPS by default for some time now. Warnings for HTTP become more serious From version 70, the widely used web browser Mozilla Firefox will mark all webpages without HTTPS ...
22 May 2019
The Sectigo timestamping certificate expires on July 9, 2019, and has been replaced. After this date Java-code signed with this certificate will cause warnings. These warnings can be resolved by signing and timestamping the code again. What are the consequences? The expiry of the timestamping certificate only has consequences for Java-code signed before March 4, 2019. This may ...
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