Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts. Maximum validity down from 398 days to 45 by 2027

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/apples_security_cert_lifespan/

3 Comments

  1. Why the rage? This is basically Apple giving engineering the power to get the business to prioritize automation of a currently-manual task that goes wrong every time cert renewal time comes around. If I was still in that line of work, I’d send Apple a thank-you card. With chocolates. And not the cheap kind, either.

  2. There’s some parts of the USAF that have expiration down to minutes.

    Starbucks does it for their POS terminals.

    It isn’t that hard, folks.