Articles tagged as “certificates”
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Since 2020, maximum lifetime of HTTPS certificates is limited to 1 year, exactly 398 days. I've previously written about the history and the reasons behind the change. But the reduced lifetime applies only to certificates issued from a public certification authority (CA) added to the operating system's or the browser's trusted root store by the vendor.
Browsers mostly don't check whether a HTTPS certificate has been revoked so maybe you'd like to do it manually. There are a few ways how to query an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) server so let's see some of them. You'll need a browser (and the openssl tool).
In February 2020 at the CA/Browser Forum in Bratislava, Slovakia (and later officially), Apple has announced that starting September 1st, 2020, maximum TLS certificate lifetime in Safari (and probably in the whole macOS and iOS and all apps) will be just 1 year, 398 days exactly. Apple's change has been followed by both Chrome and Mozilla later that year. That's very good news. But why?