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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] 2 points 5 days ago

The key pair you're thinking of is just a singular key for a block cipher. That key needs to be generated/transmitted in a secure manner. Meaning that its security is dependent on the cert. The expiration time of that cert is what they're aiming at.