Stefan Eissing @icing@chaos.social
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Let‘s Encrypt on following new CA standards to reduce certificate lifetimes to 45 days in 2028 - with opt-in steps before that.

Also mentions the DNS-PERSIST-01 challenge that will put aways with DNS record updates every time you renew a cert.

letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/fro

Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient.

letsencrypt.org

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