Here’s Where Google Hid Chrome’s SSL Certificate Information

Tonight I wanted to know where a particular site had their SSL certificate issued. Upon clicking the green padlock in Chrome, I found that there were no certificate details to be found anywhere. After a good minute or two of not being able to find it, I did what any other reasonable person would do.

I googled it.

Surprisingly, it’s been moved. Why? I don’t know. But it’s certainly not intuitive.

“Google Chrome users have been contacting me wondering why they no longer could access the detailed status of Chrome https: connections, or view the organization and other data associated with SSL certificates for those connections,” writes Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein, adding “Google took a simple click in an intuitive place and replaced it with a bunch of clicks scattered around.”

Up to now for the stable version of Chrome, you simply clicked the little green padlock icon on an https: connection, clicked on the “Details” link that appeared, and a panel then opened that gave you that status, along with an obvious button to click for viewing the actual certificate data such as Organization, issuance and expiration dates, etc. Suddenly, that “Details” link no longer is present

The full certificate data is available from the “Developers tools” panel under the “Security” label. In fact, that’s where this info has been for quite some time, but since the now missing “Details” link took you directly to that panel, most users probably didn’t even realize that they were deep in the Developers tools section of the browser.
On some systems you can just press F12, but the alternate route is to click on the three vertical dots in the upper right, then select “More Tools”, and then “Developer Tools”. (And if you don’t then see “Security”, click on the ” >>”.)

 

reference: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/01/29/1820232/heres-where-google-hid-chromes-ssl-certificate-information

reference: https://lauren.vortex.com/2017/01/28/heres-where-google-hid-the-ssl-certificate-information-you-may-need

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