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Chrome’s Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates (2017)
- mehrdadn 9y agoMaybe add [2017]? I was confused why they were saying things "will" happen in 2017 until I read the date.
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoStarting with Chrome 66, Chrome will remove trust in Symantec-issued certificates issued prior to June 1, 2016. Chrome 66 is currently scheduled to be released to Chrome Beta users on March 15, 2018 and to Chrome Stable users around April 17, 2018.
- mehrdadn 9y agoI was referring to this sentence: > Additionally, by December 1, 2017, Symantec will transition issuance and operation of publicly-trusted certificates to DigiCert infrastructure.
- sctb 9y agoUpdated, thanks! And discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15221119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15221119.
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoThis is pretty big cause it also involves all Symantec issued certificates including those operated by Symantec like GeoTrust and Thawte. "...an initial set of reportedly 127 certificates has expanded to include at least 30,000 certificates, issued over a period spanning several years."
- purge 9y agofull history of Symantec CA issues: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Symantec_Issues https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Symantec_Issues