![]() ![]() So, what happens when your SSL certificate expires? It makes your sight nigh unreachable. That means that every website needs to renew or replace its SSL certificate at least once every two years. Those requirements dictate that SSL certificates may have a lifespan of no longer than 27 months (two years + you can carry over up to three months when you renew with time remaining on your previous certificate). The CAB Forum legislates the baseline requirements that Certificate Authorities must follow to issue trusted SSL certificates. There is an industry forum, the Certificate Authority/Browser Forum, that serves as a de facto regulatory body for the SSL/TLS industry. SSL certificates are not valid forever though. By installing an SSL certificate on your website’s server, it allows you to host it over HTTPS and create secure, encrypted connections between your site and its visitors. SSL certificates facilitate the encryption of data in transit. Let’s start by answering the question we posed at the outset and then we’ll delve into some of the minutiae. ![]() What happens when your SSL certificate expires? So, today we’re going to talk about what happens when your SSL certificate expires, we’ll toss out some infamous examples of certificate expiration and we’ll even go into how to avoid accidentally letting your SSL certificates expire in the first place. But certificate expiration can have some serious consequences. Ok, so maybe that’s a little bit hyperbolic (and patently untrue – everyone knows it was Google’s wetwork). On the death certificate his cause of death just reads: “certificate expiry.” Ever wonder what happened to Jeeves? Now you know.
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