[FFmpeg-devel] SSL certificate for ffmpeg.org website is not valid anymore

[Ricardo Constantino]

On 18 July 2017 at 02:12, Gerion Entrup <gerion.entrup.ffdev at flump.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2017, 01:52:53 CEST schrieb Reimar Döffinger:
>> On 18.07.2017, at 00:59, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 7/17/2017 7:49 PM, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 13:53:02 +0300, Boris Pek wrote:
>> >>> Latest news about this topic:
>> >>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/net-dev/FKXe-76GO8Y
>> >>
>> >> Ah, thanks, I neglected to report this, because I thought it was an
>> >> issue with my Opera Developer (48), which uses the Chrome engine. Opera
>> >> (like Chrome) recently reports ffmpeg.org's certificate as revoked, but
>> >> I found no tool which could verify this...
>> >
>> > The cert is by StartCom. Afaik everyone blacklisted certs issued by them
>> > after a certain date, and now some, like Google, are also blacklisting
>> > certs issued before that date as well.
>> > Mozilla hasn't done the latter yet, so Firefox doesn't complain about
>> > it, but i guess a new cert is overdue.
>>
>> New certs are already being generated, but nobody had the time to do the transition, there is a risk of the automation failing
>> (I think the web server needs to be made to reload the certificate, which is problematic as an ordinary user and there is no way I'd ever run any of that letsencrypt stuff as root),
> This seems to work as cronjob:
> ```
> #!/bin/sh
>
> su -c "certbot renew 2>/dev/null | grep 'No renewals' >/dev/null" letsencrypt -s /bin/bash
> if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
>         service nginx reload
> fi
> ```
>
> Gerion
>
>> it is also a step backwards as the letsencrypt one is a domain-only certificate, and due to TLS's idiotic design decisions it's not possible to just deliver both certificates...
>> Thus the current situation.
>> Lack of time for proper testing being the biggest issue though...
>
>

Whether the next one is a letsencrypt cert or some other, the StartCom
are getting deprecated fast:
https://security.googleblog.com/2017/07/final-removal-of-trust-in-wosign-and.html