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		dz0ny on March 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Expired SSL Certificate at GitHub Looks like they tried to rotate the cert, maybe due to the private key leak. But instead, they rolled the wrong expired key to all content domains.

AviationAtom on March 24, 2023 [–]

I'm more thinking the new host key prevented SSL cert rotation from happening properly

orra on March 24, 2023 | [–]

Maybe, but only if they're refreshing certificates less than a day before expiry. Which isn't ideal.

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