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The 47-Day Certificate Ultimatum: How Browsers Broke the CA Cartel

12 points| toddgardner | 4 months ago |certkit.io

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For twenty years, Certificate Authorities ran the perfect protection racket. Then SHA-1 got shattered, Apple went rogue, and certificates went from lasting 3 years to 47 days. This is the story of how browsers broke the CA cartel, and why your manual certificate process is about to become your biggest problem.

dnisbet|4 months ago

Good write up, sharing with colleagues to get them onboard with automating certs! (a forever process...)