New submitter mwehle writes with this bit from Ars Technica: "Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break when they are needed most. The browser will stop querying CRL, or diploma revocation lists, and databases that rely on OCSP, or online deed status protocol, Google tester Adam Langley said in a blog post published on Sunday. He said the services, which browsers are suppositional to query before trusting a credential for an SSL-protected address, don't make end users safer because Chrome and most other browsers ensconce the connection even when the good works aren't able to ensure a license hasn't been tampered with."

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