SSL Review: December 2020

Entrust’s monthly SSL review covers SSL/TLS discussions — recaps news, trends and opinions from the industry.

Kazakhstan MITM Certificate

• Mozilla pledges to continue to protect its users in kazakhstan

Let’s Encrypt and backwards compatibility

• Extending Android Device Compatibility for Let's Encrypt Certificates

Bulletproof TLS Newsletter #72

• Cross-signature will keep Let’s Encrypt compatible with old Android versions

Other News & Notes

• Mozilla provides Part 4 of CRLite: Design of the CRLite Infrastructure
• Cloudflare discusses Privacy needs to be built into the Internet
• Endangered Firefox: The state of Mozilla
• Hashedout reviews Asymmetric vs Symmetric Encryption: Definitions & Differences and Perfect Forward Secrecy Explained
• Certificate Compression addressed in RFC 8879