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Short-Lived Certificates Coming to Let’s Encrypt

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Feed Name: Schneier on Security

Date Published: 2024-12-16

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Bruce Schneier

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Let’s Encrypt announced plans to offer short-lived TLS certificates with six-day lifetimes starting next year to reduce exposure during key compromise, leveraging widespread automation to ease adoption. The post highlights the substantial scaling required to issue dramatically more certificates per day and notes positive community reception.

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