Internet's Single Point of Failure? Let's Encrypt Risk! #shorts

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[harshness]

Given that you have a month to renew your certificates once they near expiration, it would have to be a massive long-term outage.

Steve's gone Chicken Little on this one.

 

[one_db_compression]

Given that you have a month to renew your certificates once they near expiration, it would have to be a massive long-term outage.

Steve's gone Chicken Little on this one.

Agreed.

I run Let's Encrypt on multiple servers. The certs are currently good for 90 days. I have a cron entry that runs a refresh on the certs on the first day of every month. The refresh takes under 10 seconds. I could run the script every few days in the background. Even when they shorten the expiration to 45 days, this is a nothingburger issue that any competent sysadmin can handle with a few keystrokes.