Ask HN: How are you preparing for upcoming short-lived SSL renewals?

Any new tools or services or saas you are exploring? Every company have myraid of requirements and stuff. Anyone building new solution?

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weddpros a day ago | parent | next [-]

I built https://SSLboard.com to manage your certificates at any scale and see what’s deployed, where and how. It’s using Certificate Transparency to inventory your certificates so it requires minimal input but provides a complete audit of deployed certificates.

Automation isn't enough: qualys.com (famous for SSLLabs.com) is currently serving an expired certificate (expired 8 days ago). They know their job very well, but without a tool to thoroughly and systematically inventory your certificates, you'll miss it.

	▲	froil a day ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks

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comprev a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not building anything but I'm helping other teams work on their automation to improve rotation processes.

A surprising number of Ops colleagues have almost zero exposure to IaC and the short-lived certificates on the horizon has been the necessary catalyst to change this.

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froil a day ago | parent [-]

What are you using for automation? Blend of terraform , ansible?

	▲	comprev a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, mostly those two. Many staff didn't know the systems had an API as they don't really have much development experience - just a long career in clickops/Windows. Only now are their roles morphing to include programming and, understandably, it's occasionally a daunting steep learning curve for them.

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kbrannigan 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Any more info regarding that. What does that mean?

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galaxy_gas a day ago | parent [-]

As of March 15, 2026, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 200 days.

As of March 15, 2027, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 100 days.

As of March 15, 2029, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 47 days.

As of March 15, 2026, the maximum period during which domain validation information may be reused is 200 days.

As of March 15, 2027, the maximum period during which domain validation information may be reused is 100 days.

As of March 15, 2029, the maximum period during which domain validation information may be reused is 10 days.

https://groups.google.com/a/groups.cabforum.org/g/servercert...

	▲	admissionsguy 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wow, I love the vibe the voting by companies give. Could see this kind of governance expand to other areas.

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galaxy_gas a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Already using acme