You may have just received an email from PayPal notifying you that:
In keeping with industry standards set by the Certification Authority/Browser (CA/B) Forum, PayPal will discontinue supporting 1024-bit key length certificates and will migrate to 2048-bit certificates before the end of 2013.
The question is: does this affect SubscriptionBoss?
The answer is maybe, but only if you already have an SSL certificate on your domain.
It breaks down like this…
If you do NOT have a SSL certificate now, it does not affect you.
If you have an SSL certificate now, and its key length is 2048 bits, it does not affect you.
If you have an SSL certificate now, and its key length is 1024 bits, then it DOES affect you.
How To Check Your Certificate Length
Firstly, go to your site in Firefox then follow the instructions for how to check your SSL certificate length
- Open Firefox
- Navigate to your site specifying https as the protocol
- Click on the Site Info icon on the left side of the URL bar
- Click on the Security tab
- Click View Certificate button
- Click Details tab
- Scroll down and click on Certificate Signature Value
- Check the size in bits
If your existing certificate size is 1024 bits then you will need to get a new 2048 bit SSL certificate before December 31st 2013
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