In April 2025 the CA/Browser Forum voted 25 to 0 to shrink the maximum lifetime of public TLS certificates. Not by a little. The ballot is called SC-081v3 and this is the schedule it locked in:
Effective
Max validity
Roughly
Today
In April 2025 the CA/Browser Forum voted 25 to 0 to shrink the maximum lifetime of public TLS...
In April 2025 the CA/Browser Forum voted 25 to 0 to shrink the maximum lifetime of public TLS certificates. Not by a little. The ballot is called SC-081v3 and this is the schedule it locked in:
Effective
Max validity
Roughly
Today

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