Burning Down TLS Certificate Management?

About 7 months ago, Joe Thompson was a presenter at SCaLE and gave a talk on his proposal to reform of the management of #TLS certificates because, according to him, "disaster looms".

The video of his discussion on the topic, along with his paper (in PDF) on his plan on how to achieve this goal (that he says we need to take seriously NOW), can be found HERE.

Let us know your thoughts on the matter and what ideas you have, or just how critical his ominous omen might be.

#tallship #FOSS #certificate_management

TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days

The CA/Browser Forum has officially voted to amend the TLS Baseline Requirements to set a schedule for shortening both the lifetime of TLS certificates.