Ask HN: How are you preparing for upcoming short-lived SSL renewals?

7 pointsposted 3 days ago
by froil

Item id: 45200110

10 Comments

weddpros

3 days ago

I built https://SSLboard.com to manage your certificates at any scale and see what’s deployed, where and how. It’s using Certificate Transparency to inventory your certificates so it requires minimal input but provides a complete audit of deployed certificates.

Automation isn't enough: qualys.com (famous for SSLLabs.com) is currently serving an expired certificate (expired 8 days ago). They know their job very well, but without a tool to thoroughly and systematically inventory your certificates, you'll miss it.

comprev

3 days ago

Not building anything but I'm helping other teams work on their automation to improve rotation processes.

A surprising number of Ops colleagues have almost zero exposure to IaC and the short-lived certificates on the horizon has been the necessary catalyst to change this.

froil

3 days ago

What are you using for automation? Blend of terraform , ansible?

comprev

3 days ago

Yes, mostly those two. Many staff didn't know the systems had an API as they don't really have much development experience - just a long career in clickops/Windows.

Only now are their roles morphing to include programming and, understandably, it's occasionally a daunting steep learning curve for them.

kbrannigan

3 days ago

Any more info regarding that. What does that mean?

galaxy_gas

3 days ago

As of March 15, 2026, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 200 days.

As of March 15, 2027, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 100 days.

As of March 15, 2029, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 47 days.

As of March 15, 2026, the maximum period during which domain validation information may be reused is 200 days.

As of March 15, 2027, the maximum period during which domain validation information may be reused is 100 days.

As of March 15, 2029, the maximum period during which domain validation information may be reused is 10 days.

https://groups.google.com/a/groups.cabforum.org/g/servercert...

admissionsguy

2 days ago

Wow, I love the vibe the voting by companies give. Could see this kind of governance expand to other areas.

user

3 days ago

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