On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:15:23AM -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Watson Ladd <watsonbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > We can force a rotate of all certs in 90 days, and I don't think most
> > people will notice.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately, there are plenty of longterm certificates with lifetimes >>
> 90 days.

Yes, currently the lifetime limit for public certificates is 39 months,
and will be reduced to 825 days (~27 months) effective March 2018.


Then there is backdating to consider. It was seen in both MD5 and SHA-1
deprecations. So maximum certificate lifetime sets limit on how fast
features can be flushed out.

And then there would be enormous amounts of endpoints not supporting
anything better. Those would have to be upgraded.

All in all, a real mess.


-Ilari

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