[Cialug] Safari Accepting Long-Lived Certificates?

[Chris Conmy]

Hi Todd,

You can find the information from Apple here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211025

The main thing to remember this change and all the other browsers is that
it only applies to certificates issues after 2020-09-01T00:00 UTC.

I'm not aware of any certificate providers issuing certificates longer than
a year anymore, however, I did see some funny business with GoDaddy where
it looked like they were backdating certificates.

I will note that some cert providers seem to have started selling
multi-year discounts, it's still a single year cert but you will buy
multiple years up front. Comodo is one provider who I've seen doing this.

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On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 8:13 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Safari browser was supposed to stop accepting certificates valid for
> longer than 398 days starting September 1st. But I know that they (and
> other browsers) put off some of those changes earlier this year due to the
> pandemic. Maybe this certificate bs was part of that. Anybody know? I don't
> have access to a Safari browser, and I can't seem to find any kind of a
> technical site for Apple or the browser.
>
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> Todd
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