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Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days (letsencrypt.org)
submitted 9 months ago by 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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[–] 31 points 9 months ago (10 children)

I've been dreading this switch for months (I still am, but I have been, too!) considering this year and next year will each double the amount of cert work my team has to do. But, I'm hopeful that the automation work I'm doing will pay off in the long run.

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Are you not using LE certbot to handle renewals? I can't even imagine doing this manually.

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Personally, yes. Everything is behind NPM and SSL cert management is handled by certbot.

    Professionally? LOL NO. Shit is manual and usually regulated to overnight staff. Been working on getting to the point it is automated though, but too many bespoke apps for anyone to have cared enough to automate the process before me.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    One reason for the short certs is to push faster adoption of new technology. Yes that's about new cryptography in the certs but if you still change all your certs by hand maybe you need to be forced ...

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I'm in the same boat here. I keep sounding the alarm and am making moves so that MY systems won't be impacted, but it's not holding water with the other people I work with and the systems they manage. I'm torn between manual intervention to get it started or just letting them deal with it themselves once we hit 45 day renewal periods.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Can you not just setup an nginx reverse proxy at the network edge to handle the ssl for the domain(s) and not have to worry about the app itself being setup for it? That's how I've always managed all software personal or professional

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately some apps require the certificate be bound to the internal application, and need to be done so through cli or other methods not easily automated. We could front load over reverse proxy but we would still need to take the proxy cert and bind to the internal service for communication to work properly. Thankfully that's for my other team to figure out as I already have a migration plan for systems I manage.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Why can't you just have a long lived internally signed cert on your archaic apps and LE at the edge on a modern proxy? It's easy enough to have the proxy trust the internal cert and connect to your backend service that shouldn't know the difference if there's a proxy or not.

    Or is your problem client side?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    One such app I can think of would be a client side issue. If the public cert doesnt match the back end private cert it will sever the connection and mark it as insecure. Hopefully I won't need to deal with it much longer though.

    I just heard back from my other team that "this project sounds great for your team" even though they manage many of their own apps and certificates. Perhaps I should just let them burn then!

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