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Our New Homepage
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
At some point we have realised that our, then-current, homepage was far from optimal. It didn’t provide enough of clear, well-structured information about what is it that SSLreminder is doing. We decided to change that. Prototyping in progress Since we don’t have a full-blown team of front-end engineers and UI/UX designers, all the thinking, prototyping and implementation was done by our techies. (Spoiler: they did quite a good job over there, feel free to check it out here)…more
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Digicert to Deprecate the OU Field
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Why is the OU field being removed? Oftentimes confusing, the OU field is intended to keep the information about Organizational Unit that the certificate is issued for. This field is mostly optional and there is no generally accepted validation rules for it. To reduce confusion around this field and improve validation times, Digicert is going to remove it from future ordering processes. How does this affect me? As a customer of Digicert you’ll notice the following changes:…more
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Google Chrome Will Limit SSL/TLS Certificates to 1 Year of Validity
Monday, June 15, 2020
On the 10th of June a CA/Browser Forum representative informed through Twitter that as of September 1 2020 Google Chrome will start limiting SSL/TLS certificates validity period to 398 days, or a bit over 1 year. So what exactly does this change mean for a website owner or administrator? Since the maximum certificate validity will be cut in about half, the chance to miss extension date will simply become twice as big.…more
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Why Do You Need SSL
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Welcome back to our blog. Today we are going to find out why do we actually need SSL and what is the benefit of having it enabled. There are 2 protocol groups that provide secure communication over the Internet - SSL and TLS. For the sake of simplicity we are going to call them “SSL” as a group, but we actually mean both, so read it as “SSL/TLS”. Sometimes SSL is also called HTTPS, which is a different thing, but again for our discussion does not matter much.…more
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Current State of SSL/TLS Support
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Welcome back to the SSLreminder blog. Today we’re looking at the current state of the SSL ecosystem with regards to TLS (SSL) protocol support by modern websites. In order to get the data we have turned to SSL Pulse, a monitoring tool by SSL Labs. It is a continuous and global dashboard for monitoring the quality of SSL/TLS support over time across 150,000 SSL- and TLS-enabled, most popular websites in the world.…more
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Maximum SSL Certificate Validity
Monday, May 4, 2020
In short, maximum SSL certificate validity period is 2.2 years (in 2020). See below for more details. By voting for Ballot 193, the CA/Browser Forum group have reduced the maximum lifetime for SSL certificates to 825 days or about 2.2 years. Here’s an excerpt from the ballot: Subscriber Certificates issued after March 1, 2018 MUST have a Validity Period no greater than 825 days. One of the reasons behind this decision is that longer certificate validity periods can delay compliance with new guidelines.…more