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> Why wouldn't you go with a week or a day? isn't that better than a whole month?

There is in fact work on making this an option: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/02/20/first-short-lived-cert-is...

> Why isn't it instead just a minute? or a few seconds? Wouldn't that be better?

> Why not have certificates dynamically generated constantly and have it so every single request is serviced by a new one and then destroyed after the session is over?

Eventually the overhead actually does start to matter

> Maybe the problem isn't that certificates expire too soon, maybe the problem is that humans are lazy. Perhaps it's time to go with another method entirely.

Like what?



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