Act now: Certificate Validity Periods Tighten for Code Signing and SSL/TLS Beginning March 1st On October 14th, 2025, the CA/B Forum, which establishes standards within the certificate industry, voted ...

TLS certificate lifespans are shrinking — first to 200 days, then to just 47. That means more frequent renewals, higher risk of outages, and tighter operational timelines. For years, organizations ...

Every digital transaction—checkout, login, API call—runs on a hidden foundation of millions of machine identities. Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates, just one type of machine identity, are ...

A Microsoft engineer has confirmed that TLS 1.3’s default use in Windows 11 is causing compatibility problems for IIS Express when working with client certificates. The issue, which also affects full ...

The CA/Browser Forum's decision to reduce SSL/TLS certificate lifespans to just 47 days by 2029 is set to fundamentally change how organizations manage digital trust. While the full impact will unfold ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

What just happened? Let's Encrypt began issuing free TLS certificates in 2015. After becoming the world's largest certificate authority, the nonprofit is now targeting niche use cases – such as ...

Let’s Encrypt, the non-profit certificate authority, is now issuing certificates for IP addresses following years of requests for the feature. The certificate authority previously only issued ...

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