Outages in OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Electron due to the expiration of the IdenTrust root certificate
The expiration of the IdenTrust root certificate (DST Root CA X3), used for cross-signing the root certificate of the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority, has led to issues with verifying Let’s Encrypt certificates in projects using older versions of OpenSSL and GnuTLS. Problems also affected the LibreSSL library, whose developers did not take into account past experiences related to failures caused by the expiration of the root certificate […]
