The end of Expect-CT

With the release of the latest Google Chrome browser (105) at the end of August 2022, the Expect-CT header has officially been deprecated and will be removed in version 107.

The end of Expect-CT
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The Expect-CT header was designed to allow websites to opt-in to Certificate Transparency enforcement before it was enforced by default. However, as of May 2018, new certificates are expected to support SCTs by default, which makes the Expect-CT header obsolete. Certificates issued before March 2018 were allowed to have a lifetime of 39 months, which all expired halfway 2021.

With the release of the latest Google Chrome browser (105) at the end of August 2022, the Expect-CT header has officially been deprecated and will be removed in version 107. The first deprecation reports have been processed to inform users of the pending removal.

ExpectCTHeader deprecation report

We have removed Expect-CT from our service and highly encourage users who enabled Expect-CT on their websites to remove the header to avoid unnecessary bandwidth usage.