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Starting 1 September 2020, Mozilla will no longer trust SSL certificates issued for more than 1 year (only certificates with a period of 398 days or less will be trusted). This decision does not come as a surprise because many major browsers have already supported this initiative.

From 1 September 2020, all CAs must stop issuing two-year SSL / TLS certificates. The maximum validity period for SSL certificates is now 1 year (398 days to be precise).

Dean Coclin, chairman of the CA/Browser Forum, has posted on Twitter the announcement that Google will follow Apple's lead in limiting the validity of public SSL/TLS certificates to one year. This decision was not a surprise, since Google has always been the main supporter of short-lived certificates.

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On 30 May 2020, the validity of the root certificate AddTrust External CA Root from Certification Authority Sectigo (formerly Comodo) expired, as well as intermediate certificates USERTrustRSA and Comodo RSA CA, signed by this root certificate.