Systemadministratoren sind empört über Apples „albtraumhafte“ Verkürzung der Lebensdauer von SSL/TLS-Zertifikaten. Maximale Gültigkeit bis 2027 von 398 Tagen auf 45 Tage gesenkt

Why the rage? This is basically Apple giving engineering the power to get the business to prioritize automation of a currently-manual task that goes wrong every time cert renewal time comes around. If I was still in that line of work, I’d send Apple a thank-you card. With chocolates. And not the cheap kind, either.

There’s some parts of the USAF that have expiration down to minutes.

Starbucks does it for their POS terminals.