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ekr____
6 days ago
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Google Public CA is down
Perhaps the same underlying cause, but there's no reason why Google's public CA being temporarily down would bring YouTube down.
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silverquiet
6 days ago
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If multiple services are affected, it's probably some underlying infrastructure issue.
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thayne
6 days ago
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It could prevent Google from rotating in new instances, because they aren't able to obtain a certificate.
Although, if that is the case, I would expect to to impact basically every google site.
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qmarchi
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Google uses mTLS for communications between systems and it could just be bad timing.
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LPisGood
6 days ago
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Yeah companies which also operate CAs can print as many certs as they want so it’s tempting to use a bunch everywhere with very short expiry.
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