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That makes little sense. If they can get my certificate then I have different problems that ,a 6 day turnaround isn't going to solve
Presumably, you've patched up whatever hole let them in.
.... Seriously?
If someone got a hold of your certificate that is the security equivalent of the entire company being on fire. If they got my certs they likely will have my credit cards, my birth certificate, and my youngest daughter.
Thank God though that I can renew my certificates every 6 days, that will definitely help sole the problem.
OK. Whatever hypothetical we want to think about here, we still want our cert to be renewed.
Yeah and that is something everyone already is doing anyway, I never said anything about not doing that.
I said that lowering the amount of days to 6 won't do anything to increase security. Then why not lowering it to 1 day? That ought to be super secure now! Why not 1 hour or 1 minute? Super duper secure?
What is the actual added security benefit here? Because so far all I've seen is security theatre, something unexpected from let'sencrypt
Thats an interesting position.
I dont keep my credit card information on the load balancer that holds my certs.
Missing bthe point that of they got access to that, they likely have access to a lot more and that you likely have bigger problems than just your SSL certs
Yeah but it's just an extra layer. Why not, it's automated and almost no-cost.
that's... not how SSL works.
Indeed not, it's how real life works, as there is more to lige than just SSL. If someone has access to your SSL certificates you have a ginormous set of issues, your easily replaceable SSL certificates being one of the lowest priority. I don't see how a 6 day limit on that is going to do anything at all to help you with safety
I think the implication is the infiltrator would have a lot of access already.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model