Google wants to reduce lifespan for HTTPS certificates to one year

Google wants to reduce lifespan for HTTPS certificates to one year

Google wants to reduce the lifespan of SSL certificates (used to secure HTTPS encrypted traffic) from the current two years to just over a year.

The proposal was made by Ryan Sleevi, Google's representative, at a F2F meeting of the CA/B Forum in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June.

The CA/B Forum is an unofficial industry group made up of certificate authorities (CAs; companies that issue SSL certificates) and browser makers……

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Source : Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day

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