SSL

Google had announced that Chrome would begin distrusting certificates issued by Symantec Corporation’s PKI and the decision is followed by other major browsers. These are the certificates by Thawte, VeriSign, Equifax, GeoTrust, and RapidSSL that are issued before 1st of December 2017. And, as the distrust is in effect and visitors are displayed an error […]

HTTPS is becoming the “default” for any website whether it is a blog, portal, e-commerce or corporate one. And, this year, Uptime Robot has sponsored 2 great projects, Let’s Encrypt (a free SSL CA) and Caddy (a free web server with SSL built-in) to help to push this forward. However, a website with an SSL certificate requires […]

You’ll remember that SSL 3.0 is no longer secure since October 2014 with the discovery of Poodle attack. And, it is also disabled by default on all popular browsers. On the other hand, there are still a small number of websites that support SSL 3.0 (which must definitely be disabled). Starting tomorrow (6 April 2016), we’ll also be […]