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Introduction to Certificate Authority Authorisation (CAA)
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New policies for validation of domains for TLS Certificates
When Buypass issues TLS Certificates one or more domain names always are included in the certificate. An important task for Certificate Authorities (CA) is to make sure that the certificate is issued to the rightful owner of the domain. All users on the Internet should be confident that certificates used for securing communication are correctly and reliably issued.
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Reduced lifetime for domain validation
Domain validation reuse period is reduced for TLS/SSL certificates from October 1st 2021
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SSL is dead - long live TLS!
The original SSL protocol was developed by in the early nineties. In 1995 the SSL 2.0 was released, and became the first version in use. Due to some flaws, SSL 3.0 replaced this version in 1996. SSL 3.0 has been in use for almost two decades, but the POODLE attack in 2014 showed that SSL 3.0 is vulnerable. Based on this attack SSL is considered insecure, and has been refined.
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Administration of SSL certificates