What are the devices that will be without Internet as of September 30

As of this Thursday, September 30, millions of cell phones Android and iPhone, as well as other devices, will be left without access to Internet because the root certificate that Let’s Encrypt currently uses, the IdentTrust DST Root CA X3, necessary to verify the security of the connection to the web, will expire.

Scott Helme, a researcher specialized in computer security, detailed on his website that users must act accordingly to nullify the expiration that will impose the Certification Authority (THAT).

In addition, Helme indicated some of the devices that will be affected due to the expiration of the certificate and are those that have the following web navigation components:

The users who will continue to be affected by this expiration are “All that depend on the OpenSSL 1.0.2 library or earlier, released on January 22, 2015 and last updated as OpenSSL 1.0.2u on December 20, 2019″ Warned the expert on his website.

In addition, Helme made a list of possible affected devices, among which are:

However, the international speaker explained that “as older Android devices don’t check the expiration date of a root certificate when using itLet’s Encrypt can keep chaining them up to the expired root certificate, without any problem on those old devices. “

The expert explained that this will not be the first time that a root CA certificate has expired. “I imagine it will follow the same trend as the previous expirations. If the root certificate that your certificate chain is anchored to is expired, it will most likely cause things to fail. This happened last year, on May 30, when the external root CA of AddTrust expired and took a lot of things. Organizations like Roku, Stripe, Spreedly and many others had problems and were not the only ones, even RedHat got in trouble from this unfortunate event, ”Helme reported.

As for the new certificate, which is called ISRG Root X1 cross-signed, it will be valid until September 30, 2024. According to Helme, to re-establish secure Internet connections, it will be necessary to update it on old devices.

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