You now have to activate Adobe Creative Suite using the 'offline activation' method. During 2021 Adobe killed off support for older versions of TLS (v1/v2) to connect to their Adobe's Creative Suite activation software only uses older Transport Layer Security connection methods.This affects Apple's operating system, Safari, and most browsers except Firefox. As of September 2021 OS X 10.11 and earlier no longer supports the ISRG Root X1 root certificate.

This is the result of two separate problems: It cannot 'connect' to their activation servers. Safari reports: Safari can't open the page 'xxx' because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server 'xxx'.

Instructions for installing, setting up and virtualising OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion WARNING!ġ9th November 2021 update: An issue that started in the summer of 2021 (around June) was that Apple's Safari and Adobe's activation software would no longer securely connect to servers in virtual Virtualising OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Article ID = 76Īrticle Title = Virtualising OS X 10.8 Mountain LionĪrticle Last Updated = 19th November 2021

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