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Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for updating a digital certificate. A specific embodiment of the method includes: receiving digital certificate data, the digital certificate data including a number of times of forwarding and a first forwarding moment; determining whether the following conditions are satisfied: the number of times of the forwarding being less than a preset threshold, or a time length between a current moment and the first forwarding moment being less than a preset time length; and increasing, in response to determining at least one of the conditions being satisfied, the number of times of the forwarding by a preset number, and forwarding the digital certificate data to another proxy server.