Apple has announced that only certificates with a validity period of 398 days or less (1 year + additional renewal period) will be trusted by Safari. This policy shall enter into force on 1 September 2020.

The CA/B Forum, the regulator in the SSL certificate industry, adopted Ballot SC25 by a majority vote. This ballot defines methods for HTTP domain validation. According to the new requirement, method 6 (3.2.2.4.6) from the document “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” is considered to be discontinued.

Recently, Microsoft announced that the procedure for checking x.509 certificates based on ECC in Windows® contains a critical vulnerability. Patches have been released for all supported versions of Windows®.

Dear LeaderTelecom customers, on behalf of all of our employees we warmly congratulate you with a long-awaited happy holidays – Christmas and New Year. Please kindly note the following working schedule in our office.

By majority vote, the CA/B Forum (the SSL regulator) accepted Ballot SC21, a proposal to improve log integrity control. The main goal of the proposal is to finalise the Network and Certificate System Security Requirements document, which was approved on 3 August 2012, with implementation beginning on 1 January 2013.