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

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser - A podcast by Hussein Nasser

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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