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October 17, 2018
Chrome, Edge, IE, Firefox, and Safari to Disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in 2020
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UPDATE: The big four -- Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla -- announce end of support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 standards.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla announced plans today to disable Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 support in their respective browsers in the first half of 2020."January 19th of next year marks the 20th anniversary of TLS 1.0, the inaugural version of the protocol that encrypts and authenticates secure connections across the web," said Kyle Pflug, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Edge. "Two decades is a long time for a security technology to stand unmodified," he said. "While we aren't aware of significant vulnerabilities with our up-to-date implementations of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 [...] moving to newer versions helps ensure a more secure Web for everyone." The move comes as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) --the organization that develops and promotes Internet standards-- is hosting discussions to formally deprecated both TLS 1.0 and 1.1. All four browsers --Chrome, Edge, IE, Firefox, and Safari-- already support TLS 1.2 and will soon support the recently-approved fina version of the TLS 1.3 standard. Chrome and Firefox already support TLS 1.3, while Apple and Microsoft are still working on support. Microsoft cited public stats from SSL Labs showing that 94 percent of the Internet's sites have already moved to using TLS 1.2, leaving very few sites on the older standard versions. "Less than one percent of daily connections in Microsoft Edge are using TLS 1.0 or 1.1," Pflug said, also citing internal stats. Windows users and system administrators can test the impact of having TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 disabled right now and prepare their devices and networks before the final deadline. They can do this by accessing the "Internet Options" setting in the Windows control panel, visiting the "Advanced" tab, and unticking the "Use TLS 1.0" and "Use TLS 1.1" options in the Security section. Copyright 2018 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. From https://www.zdnet.com.
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