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The new TLS 1.3 protocol was finalised on 21 March 2018. Prior to this, the protocol hadn’t been updated for more than 8 years. TLS 1.3 brings improved security and performance.

LeaderTelecom has launched a new project, which is available at www.sslcertificates.top. Within the framework of this project, the company aims to organise and analyse SSL certificates used by large sites in each of the vast market segments across the world.

A few days ago, the CA / B Forum, the industry regulator of SSL certificates, accepted by a majority vote proposal Ballot 218 associated with the removal of a several domain validation methods.

As reported in the DigiCert blog, from 1 February 2018, all new publicly trusted SSL certificates from this certificate authority will be added to the Certificate Transparency logs by default.

As we already mentioned previously, the issue of three-year SSL certificates will be terminated by all certifying authorities, starting from 1 March 2018. However, DigiCert has made an amendment to the information regarding this date: the company reported that the latest issuance date for the three-year GeoTrust, RapidSSL, Symantec and Thawte SSL certificates is 20 February 2018.