What Caused Stripe and Ruku to stop working on May 30th 2020? Expired Root Certificate Bug Explained

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Episode | Podcast

Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 14:08:54 GMT

<p>In this video I explain what happened to services such as stripe &amp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp;I explain what happened in details.. &nbsp;&nbsp;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</p>