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All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

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1318 points xvector | 1 comments | 04 May 19 01:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
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needle0 ◴[04 May 19 01:56 UTC] No.19823806[source]▶
I’ll still keep using Firefox since I recognize the importance of browser diversity and the hazards of a Chrome monoculture (that and vertical tabs), but, yikes.

Still, this type of oversight seems all too common even in large companies. I remember several cases from Fortune 500 companies in the past few years alone. What would be a good way to automate checking for them? Has anyone developed a tool designed specifically to avoid certificate expiry disasters?

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revvx ◴[04 May 19 02:36 UTC] No.19823994[source]▶
> Still, this type of oversight seems all too common even in large companies. (...) Has anyone developed a tool designed specifically to avoid certificate expiry disasters?

LetsEncrypt renewal is supposed to be automated. [1]

I know of a company that hosted blogs for thousands of customers. They used LetsEncrypt, but the CTO considered automatic renewals a possible security risk, so they did it manually. Problem is, the expiration happened in a weekend and they "forgot" to update the certificates before that. Suffice to say that the next Monday wasn't pleasant. They automated after that.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/about/

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1. owaislone ◴[04 May 19 06:00 UTC] No.19824729[source]▶
They didn't have renew automatically but they could automate notifications, alerts or even banners in their internal apps when 60-70% of the time was exhausted. If I was given such a restriction, I'd still automate it 100% but require a human to authorize it every time by clicking a magic link in their email, slack or some dashboard, and nag them with notifications until someone authorized it.