[Cryptography] Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down

[John Kemp]

> On Jan 12, 2019, at 8:14 PM, Tom Mitchell <mitch at niftyegg.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:48 PM Udhay Shankar N <udhay at pobox.com <mailto:udhay at pobox.com>> wrote:
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/government-shutdown-tls-certificates-not-renewed-many-websites-are-down/ <https://www.zdnet.com/article/government-shutdown-tls-certificates-not-renewed-many-websites-are-down/>
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> More than 80 TLS certificates used by US government websites have expired so far without being renewed, leaving some websites inaccessible to the public.
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> For whitehouse.gov <http://whitehouse.gov/>
> Issued On	Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 4:00:00 PM
> Expires On	Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 5:00:00 AM
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> Now I need to look at the 80 to see if there are systematics to the list.
> I dislike thing that look dumb on one side and well planned on another.
> The partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22.  How was the WH issued a fresh cert
> after the shutdown.

The WH, and many US federal agencies have their own discretionary funds, in addition to, and separate from, the congressionally-approved allocations affected by the shutdown. They can decide who to pay and not pay with those funds.

> Who works on Sunday especially with a shutdown.

Federal employees do.

>   Who paid the fee?

The WH marketing department, probably.

- johnk

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