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Google's CA Updates Schedule: A Key to Elevating Web Security Standards

Calendar Sep 11, 2014 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Miffed certificate authorities are calling on Google to give websites more time to upgrade the security used in browser-to-server communications before displaying warnings in Chrome.

The CAs are upset over Google's roughly six-month timetable for ratcheting up the notices that begin this month for Chrome users visiting sites that do not upgrade from SHA-1 to SHA-2.

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