Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

• dan@upvote.au ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  DigiCert have said they’re not changing their prices as a result. It’s still a yearly payment.

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lol, never had to buy a cert huh?

  You’re still buying a year or more at a time, no matter the lifetime of the cert itself. Even if the cert lifetime was a week, you’re still buying the same product, no matter how many times you rotate it.

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  • fluckx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Personally? No I’ve never bought a cert before. Given there’s free alternatives and it’s a homelab it doesn’t make sense. Otherwise I’ve used them on AWS, where ACM also just provides them for free.

    What you’re saying is that certificate providers will still charge you and provide certificates for a year, but just provide you with N certificates to span that year?

    E.g. if the duration is 45 days then they will give you 365/45 certificates ?

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      . if the duration is 45 days then they will give you 365/45 certificates ?

      Minimum. We get through digicert at work, and we abuse the hell out of our wildcard and reissue it tons of times a year. You’re buying a service for the year, not an individual cert.

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      • fluckx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Interesting. Thanks for that insight :)

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