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Re: http - how secure is it?
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Originally Posted by Carth
I vaguely recall a year or two ago, I had quite a few certificate warnings on various sites/pages that normally were ok . . . not sure if it was down to a change in how they're done or a cock up somewhere in the system?
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There have been incidents in the last few years where a certificate authority made errors that meant they couldn't be relied on and their certificates were distrusted.
One of the biggest was Symantec
https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/sym...usted-tuesday/
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Google Chrome 66 will distrust any Symantec, GeoTrust, Thawte & RapidSSL certificate issued before June 1, 2016
On Tuesday, April 17 [2018], Google will push the newest version of its web browser, Chrome 66, to stable, effectively distrusting any Symantec CA brand (Symantec, GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL) SSL certificate issued before June 1, 2016. Once Chrome 66 goes live and its users begin to update their browsers, any website still using one of the affected Symantec CA brand SSL certificates will be slapped with a browser warning.
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But smaller authorities are impacted too https://www.zdnet.com/article/google...a-from-chrome/
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Last edited by BenMcr; 28-09-2021 at 07:20.
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