Due to a large number of Symantec's mistakes in recent years, Google announced on Thursday that Google Chrome will gradually restrict Symantec's HTTPS credentials.
In September 2015, Symantec admitted that its Thawte certificate authority had issued a Google.com Extended Validation (EV) in error and fired its employees.
At that time, Symantec said that it had sent 23 certificates by mistake, but Google recently discovered that the total amount exceeds 30,000.
This means that many users may be connected to websites that contain malicious programs, resulting in personal information or accounts being in danger of being stolen.
Google was very angry about this and stated that it would impose sanctions on Symantec.
Google’s latest statement, Chrome will no longer recognize all certificates issued by Symantec. The original Chrome browser will display a valid URL holder in the address bar, that is, the name of Symantec, but Google engineer Ryan Sleevi pointed out that from now on at least one year, Google no longer shows the project, which means that Symantec The credentials were downgraded to less secure domain credentials.
In the future, Google plans to gradually abolish all existing certificates issued by Symantec's vouchers through Chrome upgrades.
Since 2015 Symantec-issued vouchers account for 30% of all valid vouchers for the entire Internet, this will cause millions of Chrome users to lose access to a large number of websites.
In order to reduce the impact, Chrome will gradually shorten the validity period of Symantec voucher in the new Chrome in the future.
Among them, in Chrome 59, these credentials are valid for 33 months, and when they reach Chrome 64, they will be shortened to 9 months.
For Symantec sanctions, Symantec expressed dissatisfaction, saying that Google's actions were unprepared and that such measures were also quite irresponsible. Symantec reminds SSL/TLS customers that they "don't take any action."
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