Chrome 70 coming soon, thousands of websites use Symantec Digital Certificates will be affected
The Google development team plans to push Google Chrome version 70 to the official channel users next week, which will continue to improve the existing UI interface.
But for web developers, the new version has a significant change, completely blocking all web links that use Symantec digital certificates.
This is the industry’s punishable remedy for the Symantec certificate issuance system. The complete interception of Symantec is also the end of the digital certificate accident.
The access error is as follows: NET::ERR_CERT_SYMANTEC_LEGACY
If you see the above error code, which means that you are using a Symantec certificate, Google and other browsers will block access.
Of course, using a Symantec certificate as a security reminder may reveal your personal information, but you can also click Advanced and choose to continue to visit the website.
The new version no longer supports all Symantec certificates:
Previously, Symantec was found to have issued a digital certificate for violations and evaded industry inspections, but the confusion of the final Symantec certificate issuance system was confirmed.
As a punitive measure, the industry plans to phase out the certificates issued by Symantec’s old PKI infrastructure, that is, browsers and systems no longer trust.
But then Symantec directly abandoned the digital certificate business and sold it to DIGICERT, so the Symantec certificate brand is now no longer there.
And next week is also the focus of Symantec’s violation of the issue of certification, so Symantec has given up on the certificate business, and the browser no longer trusts Symantec.
What should a website developer do:
Originally Symantec’s certificate brands were resold to DIGICERT, and the new digital certificate issuing agency will continue to provide services to customers.
If the user’s digital certificate has not expired, go to DIGICERT to apply for a replacement, and there is no additional charge for this replacement process.
The replaced root certificate authority supports all major browsers and operating systems for DIGICERT, although developers can also change other providers.
Via: techcrunch
