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Let's Encrypt Announces New-Certificate-Every-6-Days Offering (letsencrypt.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

compromising a keypair is a huge win. lets you impersonate the domain. shorter validation periods = smaller windows of compromised situations.

basically the smaller you make the window the less manual intervention and the less complicated infrastructure gets. currently TLS systems need a way to invalidate certificates. get them down to a day and suddenly that need just disappears. vastly simplifying the code and the system. 6 days is a huge improvement over 90 days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ok, I slid right by the “compromised” word. Makes sense now.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

you mean you slid right on by an understanding of how security infrastructure works. since one always assumes credentials will be compromised.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I mean I just missed that part.