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Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire

Posted by Soulskill on from the happens-to-the-best-of-us dept.

Gr8Apes writes: The certificate for Google's intermediate certificate authority expired Saturday. The certificate was used to issue Gmail's certificate for SMTP, and the expiration at 11:55am EDT caused many e-mail clients to stop receiving Gmail messages. While the problem affected most Gmail users using PC and mobile mail clients, Web access to Gmail was unaffected. I guess Google Calendar failed to notify someone.

4 of 104 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah I only use Tinder for all my communication.

  2. Obligatory XKCD by avgjoe62 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This seems so prophetic now:

    Obligatory XKCD Link

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    How come Slashdot never gets Slashdotted?

  3. LOL ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am GRoot.

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    Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  4. title wrong by fugas · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Google Internet Authority G2" is NOT a root certificate (subject != issuer).