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Hello, since the old certificates expired, I renewed them yesterday with win-acme and all is fine in Windows 10 with all browsers, but in Windows 7 Chrome (fully updated, version 94.xx) shows NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID and shows the old expired ones not ISRG.
Hi, this sound like the exact issue we are having too. Multiple clients report the same issue, Chrome on Win 7. They don't have the new root cert in the windows cert store. But normally they should fetch it automatically (if i understand the process correctly) but they dont. Even navigating to -
isrgrootx1.letsencrypt.org/ with IE did not work. Manually installing a root cert is, of course, not a realistic option. Please help!
As a webhost, many of our clients have users and potential website visitors who run windows7 and google chrome. It is beyond anyone's control to contact a potential visitor to a website and educate him in updating Windows. This has to be a bug that needs to be fixed ASAP.
The only "bug" is that Windows 7 is too old to get security updates. Let's Encrypt may be the most well-known issuer of certificates, but it's really nothing specific to them. As roots expire, old systems that aren't getting security (including trust store) updates will have less and less access to the Internet. The only possible "fix" is to update to a supported platform. If Firefox still runs on Windows 7, you could try that since it uses its own trust store. Or, you can try using another CA, but that will just defer the problem until whichever root that CA has in the old trust store also expires.
I'm guessing somebody could put together a Powershell or batch file to simplify that somewhat. But again, you're just masking the problem of not getting security updates, and shouldn't actually consider any such system secure for anything.
Hmm. I was probably reading too much into someone above saying that visiting -
isrgrootx1.letsencrypt.org/ on Windows 7 in IE also didn't work, and I assumed that it meant that Windows 7 didn't have it in the trust store. Perhaps it's just some configurations, or based on whether it had been lazy-loaded correctly in the past? Do we have confirmation that 7 does the same lazy-loading thing, or is it something they added in one of the versions of 10?
This is not a bug from Let's Encrypts side, but just a normal flow of how the PKI infrastructure works. Sysops have a choice between two different certificate chains, so sysops can make a difference there.
I am still confused about this, i am sry if this is a stupid question: Would changing the certificate chain help a client that doesn't have ISRG Root X1? E.g. a client with Windows 7 that has never been updated via windows update and is out of date?
Also this "lazy-loading" that has been mentioned: Is this possible and how does it work? This Post (Microsoft Windows Root Certificate Lazy-Loading) does talk about visiting -
isrgrootx1.letsencrypt.org/ and lazy-Loading the cert but from my testing this does nothing and the page does not load on a client that does not have the current root.
Now, I don't know how similar that VM image (which lists a "created date" of 1/9/2018 in Hyper-V) is to a "real-world" Windows 7 instance which has who-knows-what installed and has been who-knows-where on the Internet to populate caches and whatnot, but it's at least some evidence that it's possible to have a Windows 7 computer that works for going to sites using Let's Encrypt's certificates. It makes me think that those computers that it's not working on must have had automatic updates turned off many years ago in order to not get the ISRG Root X1 certificate in its trust store, but maybe there's something else going on if people are seeing a high level of Windows 7 issues.
I don't know if this post is actually helpful information, but maybe other people can do their own controlled experiments to figure out what the difference is between Windows 7 systems that work and those that don't.
I'm having the same problem here. Google chrome windows 7 both 32bit and 64bit shows NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID error. I'm just a single guy manage around 100 computers. All those users don't know the admin password except my boss so they can't install firefox. I don't want to install all those 100 computers one by one. Please fix this ASAP =(
Assuming you have a domain admin account which can access all of the computers you need to script a group policy startup script that installs the ISRG Root X1 (self signed) certificate into the local computer or applies this registry method: Fixing Windows installs that don't receive updates to their trusted roots - #29 by rmbolger
Somehow your automatic CA root updates are not enabled, you should figure that out as well. Check your group policy to ensure automatic updates in not disabled: How to enable the "automatic root certificates update" on Windows Server 2016 - Microsoft Q&A
It makes me think that those computers that it's not working on must have had automatic updates turned off many years ago in order to not get the ISRG Root X1 certificate in its trust store, but maybe there's something else going on if people are seeing a high level of Windows 7 issues.
Hi all. I'm not sure what is going on but all R3, LetsEncrypt certified websites on my IExplorer, Opera and Chrome browsers are giving your clock is wrong error. Check error message from my forum help post:
I ask because on my system I installed chrome before I began using a standard account and every time I updated chrome on my standard account it would show as having been updated on the admin account as well.
You'd have to ask them, but likely for the same reason that Microsoft encourages everyone to upgrade to the latest OS (at least when not simply seeking for their own financial gain); to get users on the latest and (theoretically) most secure OS. Of course they would not consider that there are edge cases such as my own where I am likely able to keep Windows 7 in a more secure state than Windows 10 will ever be, regardless of what patches might be released for it.
Windows 7 is up and running and humming along nicely. I just have a few more things to set up (Steam, my games etc.) and I'll be all set. I've already got it patched up and locked down with all of my tweaks, mods and security tools running and configured.
FYI for anyone who has chosen to abandon Windows 7 for Windows 10. Apparently Windows 10 suffers from a new critical vulnerability that impacts digital signature validation and cryptography (the tech that allows you to validate the source of a file and the tech that keeps your communications encrypted/safe from snoopers).
I kid, but it does make you wonder; why does such a weakness exist in Microsoft's new code, and why aren't earlier Windows versions affected? I wonder what they might have changed to result in this vulnerability existing in 10 and the latest versions of Windows Server.
This doesn't mean that earlier versions of Win10 are bug proof, then no patches to it will will ever be reqd. But sadly, it's not so.. So, csn't take anything for granted. Maybe as the latest WIn 10 is having some teething problems than earlier versions and problems ironed out over time.Let's hope that there are no critical bugs in earlier versions esp. Win 7 to be exploited with EOL..
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