Microsoft said that as the new crown pneumonia outbreak in the world, will postpone their browser out of time TLS 1.0 and 1.1 version of the protocol. Due to a large number of developers in order to avoid contracting the virus while staying at home, work that often requires significant changes will take significantly more energy and more time, Microsoft has decided to postpone TLS 1.0 and 1.1 out of date, until the second half of the epidemic has been effectively controlled.
TLS 1.0 and 1.1 was initially scheduled phase-out in the first half of 2020, technically, their elimination will destroy those who use their Web sites, although the number of these sites is not much.
But by the epidemic, currently these old sites, especially government agencies unable to update the site, but these sites need to publish epidemic guidance information. If TLS is disabled suddenly could affect the fight against the epidemic, so Microsoft decided to postpone the schedule, will be disabled by default TLS 1.0 and 1.1 times postponed until September 8 later this year.
But Microsoft still hope that we soon stopped using TLS 1.0 and 1.1, "Although these agreements are still available to customers re-enabled as needed, but we recommend that all organizations abandoned TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in as soon as practicable. Newer versions of TLS protocol support more modern encryption technology, and it has been widely supported in modern browsers (such as the new Microsoft Edge). "
In addition to Microsoft during, Firefox also crown a new virus outbreak renewed support TLS 1.0 and 1.1, in order to avoid a number of government websites to provide new crown outbreaks necessary information related to the use of older versions of TLS can not be accessed.