{"id":12299,"date":"2025-11-21T19:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=12299"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:25:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:25:56","slug":"ssl-cert-validity-periods-being-reduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=12299","title":{"rendered":"SSL Cert Validity Periods Being Reduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CertValidity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CertValidity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CertValidity.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CertValidity-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CertValidity-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CertValidity-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CertValidity-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabforum.org\/2025\/11\/17\/ballot-csc-31-maximum-validity-reduction\/\">The CA\/B Forum has decided to reduce the length of time digital certificates can be valid<\/a>. The change is a gradual reduction that I expect is designed to make manual certificate renewal more and more cumbersome and drive people toward automating certificate management.<\/p>\n<p>Currently: 398 days although many vendors issue certs for one year.<br \/>\nMarch 15, 2026: 200 days. Increased renewal frequency means manual tracking and renewal becomes more challenging.<br \/>\nMarch 15, 2027: 100 days. Manual tracking and renewal is painful, but\u00a0<em>possible<\/em>.<br \/>\nMarch 15, 2029: 47 days. Automation is basically a requirement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CA\/B Forum has decided to reduce the length of time digital certificates can be valid. The change is a gradual reduction that I expect is designed to make manual certificate renewal more and more cumbersome and drive people toward automating certificate management. Currently: 398 days although many vendors issue certs for one year. March &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1803,2194,2193,206,1804],"class_list":["post-12299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration","tag-cert-expiry","tag-certificate-automation","tag-certificate-management","tag-certificates","tag-ssl-certificate-expiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12304,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299\/revisions\/12304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}