Expensive renewals once a year... or free certificates any time? Tough choice
CA/Browser Forum – an industry body of web browser makers, software developers, and security certificate issuers – is considering slashing the lifetime of HTTPS certs from 27 months to 13 months.
The plan, floated at a meeting by Googler Ryan Sleevi earlier this year and still in its draft stages, comes just one year after the lifetime maximum for certificates was lowered from 39 months to 27 months. There is no word yet on when a vote may take place.
HTTPS certificates are, essentially, used to encrypt connections between browsers and sites, and help software determine that no one is tampering with or eavesdropping on those connections.
By reducing the amount of time a TLS/SSL certificate is valid, websites must ..
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