I’m going on what I heard from Security Now but it is my understanding that apple was the only one pushing for this and the others just voted to approve even though apple was never able to present a convincing argument for why it needed to be shortened.
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NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoShorter SSL certificate length means more security
Even Mozilla’s pushing it
oppy1984@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Do you have a link to an explanation of this? I am curious to learn more
Netrunner@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yeah and having a 512 character password is more secure than 52.