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Google to Remove Public Key Pinning (PKP) Support in Chrome

October 28, 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu

 

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Late yesterday afternoon, Google announced plans to deprecate and eventually remove PKP support from the Chromium open-source browser, which indirectly means from Chrome.

 

PKP, which stands for Public Key Pinning, is a system described in IETF RFC-7469 that webmasters can use with HTTPS sites.

 

PKP, also referred to as HPKP, allows a site operator to set an HTTP header for his site. When users connect to the website for the first time, the PKP header tells the user’s browser to download a list of public keys generated against the site’s HTTPS certificate.

 

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