SSL/TLS certificates is being reduced to just 47 days!

[Bob Sneidar]

I hope this doesn’t apply to self-signed certs. If anyone thinks that web developers are going to manually renew their certs every 50 days they are woefully mistaken. 

Bob S


> On Oct 7, 2025, at 3:03 PM, harrison--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear LiveCoders,
> 
> I was just reading an article about SSL certificates for websites, and came across this statement:
> 
> "The maximum validity period for SSL/TLS certificates is being significantly reduced to just 47 days by 2029. 
> This change aims to enhance security and reduce risks associated with compromised certificates.”
> 
> I don’t know about you, but I have several websites that I have to renew the SSL/TLS certificates for every year.
> It is always a PITA, and a big time waster as far as I am concerned. It looks to me like the big guys just want to 
> force all of us into forking over more money more often to them just so we can stay in business. Most of the 
> members on their forum are the big SSL certification organizations. Just imagine having to renew all of your
> website certificates seven times a year instead of just once every year!
> 
> I think LiveCode should be help us to deal with this issue as it will effect all LiveCode servers which is where
> many of us have been concentrating our efforts lately as the App stores have proved to be a great disappointment
> for a lot of developers.
> 
> Please feel free to share this information with your friends, and let us know what you think about it too!
> 
> The organization behind this is: cabforum.org <http://cabforum.org/> 
> 
> If you want to write to them and express your views you can use the following email address: questions at cabforum.org <mailto:questions at cabforum.org>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick Harrison
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