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Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days (letsencrypt.org)

submitted 7 months ago by artiman@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm using automated renewals.

But, that just means there's a new cert file on disk. Now I have to convince a half a dozen different apps to properly reload that changed cert. That means fighting with Systemd. So Systemd has won the first few skirmishes, and I haven't had the time or energy to counterattack. Now instead of having to manually poke at it 4x per year, it's going to be closer to once a month. Ugh.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Half a dozen sounds like a lot, kinda curious what you are running? If they all are web services maybe use a reverse proxy or something?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Web services, and then various components of an email system.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you have the time to set it up, Stalwart can manage its own cert renewal.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to have to completely redo my whole email stack.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Which is fair enough

[–] eclipse@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You could try a path unit watching the cert directory (there are caveats around watching the symlinks directly) or most acme implementations have post renewal hooks you can use which would be more reliable.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Don't worry, they'll sell you new software for another $50.00/m/certificate to help with the new certificate fiddling you now have to do monthly. It didn't make sense for them to release it until they pushed through the 45 day window change through backchannels.