Monday 24 February 2020

Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months

Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months

Safari will, later this year, no longer accept new HTTPS certificates that expire more than 13 months from their creation date. That means websites using long-life SSL/TLS certs issued after the cut-off point will throw up privacy errors in Apple's browser. The policy was unveiled by the iGiant at a Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser) meeting on Wednesday.
Read more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/20/apple_shorter_cert_lifetime/?source=Snapzu

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