What Caused Stripe and Ruku to stop working on May 30th 2020? Expired Root Certificate Bug Explained
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
English - June 02, 2020 14:08 - 8 minutes - 6 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this video I explain what happened to services such as stripe & roku which failed to establish TLS sessions because the ROOT certificate AddTrust External CA Root has expired. This is a bug in openSSL and other software the perform this kind of validation. I explain what happened in details.. Resources https://twitter.com/sleevi_/status/1266647545675210753 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4158 https://ohdear.app/blog/resolving-the-addtrust-external-ca-root-certificate-expiration