Industry Deprecation of 3-year SSL certificates

[AbsoluteHosting]

Not sure if this is posted somewhere else.

You will no longer be able to order a 3-year certificate after February 20, 2018. This is an industry-wide change required of all Certificate Authorities. If you currently have a certificate that is valid for 3-years or more, it will continue to work as intended for the remainder of the certificate’s term, and no action is required.


https://knowledge.rapidssl.com/supp...ntent&id=ALERT2523&actp=LIST&viewlocale=en_US

 

[easyhostmedia]

This gives more information on this

https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/reminder-3-year-option-ssl-certificates-ends-march-1-2018/

 

[whmcsguru]

ugh, AGAIN with this crap?!?!?!?!?!?!?

They did this to us a few years ago, with 5 years, now 3 years are going away... ENOUGH. There's literally absolutely no reason for these to be suddenly disappearing... None

 

[easyhostmedia]

ugh, AGAIN with this crap?!?!?!?!?!?!?

They did this to us a few years ago, with 5 years, now 3 years are going away... ENOUGH. There's literally absolutely no reason for these to be suddenly disappearing... None

All these started to happen after this CA/B forum appeared on the scene, the same with Google and Firefox marking HTTP sites as unsecure.

 

[whmcsguru]

Still, really no reason to make this change. I mean, seriously. next it's going to be that everyone's stuck with one year certs

 

[easyhostmedia]

Still, really no reason to make this change. I mean, seriously. next it's going to be that everyone's stuck with one year certs

I agree, it is just bully tactics by the CA's and Browser companies who set up and operate the CA/B forum

 

[MikeDVB]

Perhaps it's an attempt to lessen the load/requirement for the CRL and related services.

 

[easyhostmedia]

Perhaps it's an attempt to lessen the load/requirement for the CRL and related services.

Registrars are doing this with some domains too, restricting the periods of domain registrations.

It does not made sense

 

[NikulModh]

According CA/Browser Forum guideline, deprecation of 3 years certificate help to stay away from presence of outdated and possibly vulnerable certificates and keep implementations of SSL security up to date.