The makers of the four biggest browsers all said Monday that their applications will drop support for the TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0 and 1.1 encryption protocols in early 2020.

"In March of 2020, Firefox will disable support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1," wrote Martin Thomson, principal engineer at Mozilla, in a post to a company blog.

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Other browser developers, including Apple (Safari), Google (Chrome) and Microsoft (Edge and Internet Explorer) issued similar notices. All pegged early 2020 as the target for disabling support.

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