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Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and other browsers will switch to TLS 1.2 by 2020

20.10.2019
20.10.2019

Representatives of Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple announced that, by 2020, protocol TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will be disabled in their browsers. The new default version will be TLS 1.2.

Chrome, Edge, IE, Firefox and Safari browsers currently support TLS 1.2. At the same time, Chrome and Firefox already support TLS 1.3 - a standard that was recently approved in its final form. Microsoft and Apple are only planning to include TLS 1.3 support in future versions of their browsers.

According to the statistics of SSL Labs, today 94% of all sites on the network use TLS 1.2.

Key features of browser vendors’ announcements:

TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will be completely disabled in Chrome 81, which is scheduled for release in January 2020.
Edge and IE 11 will disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in the first half of 2020.
In Firefox, TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support will be disabled in March 2020.
In Safari, TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support will be removed in March 2020 with Apple iOS and macOS updates.

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