Alert: Let's Encrypt to revoke about 2 million HTTPS certificates in two days

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Message 106945 - Posted: 1 Feb 2022, 16:10:16 UTC

Wondering if this will affect BOINC CLIENT SOFTWARE or any project websites?
Especially since we have had problems with the CA certificates recently breaking things.

Alert: Let's Encrypt to revoke about 2 million HTTPS certificates in two days
In a post to the Let's Encrypt discussion community forum, site reliability engineer Jillian explained that on Tuesday, a third party reported "two irregularities" in the code implementing the "TLS Using ALPN" validation method (BRs 3.2.2.4.20, RFC 8737) in Boulder, its Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) software
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