Baseline Requirements take effect on December 15, 2026
Starting December 15, 2026, Certificate Authorities must use at least five remote network perspectives to corroborate domain ownership, enhancing security against BGP attacks.
- Field
- tools and releases
- What they did
- Let's Encrypt added two new remote sources for domain name validation to meet updated security requirements that mandate at least five such sources.
- Why it matters
- This increases protection against BGP attacks and ensures more reliable domain verification before issuing certificates.
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