Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient.

Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.
This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient.

  • vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    2 hours ago

    YES! Keep cutting it down!

    Revocation is a lost cause and if you don’t automate you deserve what you get.

    • embMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      43 minutes ago

      I have multiple self hosted services at home which are impossible to automate because they are not accessible from the internet without VPN. And some even don’t have internet access. Still me and my roommates are using them through a valid domain that points to the local address enabling https. Some services require https to function at all. After log4j i’ll never again open a “normal” port 80 or 443 to my local net. So thanks i guess. 90 days was annoying already. Great it works out for you