Today is June 19, 2026. If your SSL certificate was issued or renewed any time in March 2026, its 199-day validity expires in the first two weeks of October 2026. That is approximately 14 weeks from today. Sectigo’s Chief Compliance[…]
Hard deadlines: Sectigo February 10, 2027. DigiCert March 1, 2027. Chrome Root Program March 15, 2027. After these dates, no public CA may issue SSL/TLS certificates containing the Client Authentication Extended Key Usage (EKU). Organizations using public SSL certificates for[…]
Netcraft’s 2025 data across hundreds of millions of active SSL certificates shows 94.3% are Domain Validation. OV accounts for 5.5%. EV, once the gold standard for high-trust sites, has fallen to 0.1% of issuance and is declining at roughly 20%[…]
The headline numbers are real and sourced. The conclusion most coverage draws from them is wrong. North Korea’s near-absence from global SSL certificate counts is overwhelmingly a function of US export sanctions law, not a story about technology adoption, encryption[…]
