When you access a website or an online application, you most often do so in a “secure” way. This is for example the well-known green padlock that symbolizes HTTPS connections in your browser, which has become a standard these years thanks to initiatives like Let’s Encrypt.
This means that the data transferred to the server is encrypted, and that even if they are intercepted, they cannot be read by a third party. This protection has been provided by the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol for almost 20 years, whether it’s a personal site, an online shop or an access to your bank’s services.
Over time, this critical technical brick on the Internet has evolved to strengthen the level of security it offers. In August 2018, its version 1.3 (the latest) was released. Meanwhile, versions 1.0 and 1.1 were considered to no longer offer a sufficient level of protection. They have been deprecated by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) since March 2021 and have therefore been gradually removed from recent browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and its derivatives or Safari.
At Clever Cloud, we have seen our customers adopt TLS 1.2 and 1.3 gradually. On our load balancers, based on our in-house and open source reverse proxy Sōzu, the latest version accounts for over 90% of the requests processed each day. TLS 1.2 for just under 9%. TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for only a few tens of thousands of requests per day, less than 0.1% of our traffic.
While we have maintained these versions for compatibility reasons, this will no longer be the case as of June 30. We will of course inform the customers affected by this choice, and encourage them to switch to more recent versions, which will have advantages for them in terms of security, performance and SEO.
Several reminders will be sent between now and the final shutdown of TLS 1.0 and 1.1. If you have any questions on this subject, please contact our support team through the Console.