Jun 28 2020

Apple strong-arms entire CA industry into one-year certificate lifespans

Category: cyber securityDISC @ 11:18 pm

Apple, Google, and Mozilla reduce the lifespan for HTTPS certificates to 398 days, against the wishes of Certificate Authorities. A decision that Apple unilaterally took in February 2020 has reverberated across the browser landscape and has effectively strong-armed the Certificate Authority industry into bitterly accepting a new default lifespan of 398 days for TLS certificates.

Following Apple’s initial announcement, Mozilla and Google have stated similar intentions to implement the same rule in their browsers.

Starting with September 1, 2020, browsers and devices from Apple, Google, and Mozilla will show errors for new TLS certificates that have a lifespan greater than 398 days.

Source: Apple strong-arms entire CA industry into one-year certificate lifespans | ZDNet

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Tags: Cert Authority, Cert Lifespan