Let’s Encrypt will significantly reduce certificate lifespan. From February, the switch to 64 days validity will occur.

Let’s Encrypt moves to a 64-day default certificate lifetime on February 10, 2027, and admins with hardcoded renewals need to ...

Starting February 2027, Let’s Encrypt will move to 64-day certificate lifetimes by default, ahead of 45-day lifetimes in 2028 ...

Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit that provides free TLS certificates for millions of sites, has announced that it will be moving to certificates with 64-day lifetimes on February 10, 2027: This means that ...

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Let’s Encrypt’s update tightens security by reducing how long compromised or improperly issued certificates remain valid.