Google Chrome will no longer check for revoked SSL certificates online

Posted by | News | Wednesday 8 February 2012 4:38 pm
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Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome, because it considers the process inefficient and slow.

Browsers currently check if a website’s SSL certificate has been revoked by its issuing Certificate Authority (CA) when trying to establish an HTTPS connection. These checks are done by querying CA-operated servers through a special protocol known as OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol).

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