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September ushers in halved TLS cert lifespans – iTnews

Browser vendors decided 13 months is long enough.

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From September 1, X.509 Transport Layer Security (TLS) digital certificates with a validity period of more than 13 months or 398 days will no longer be issued.
This is down from the existing 27 months or 835 days life span and is being implemented despite a vote in September last year by members the industry Certificate Authority/Browser Forum that went against the move.
Certificate authorities felt that shortening the validity periods of TLS certificates would lead to problems for users when …

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