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Cake day: April 9th, 2024

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  • The background is that certificate revocation is a broken system and having short lived certificates makes the problem go away. You don’t need to worry about how to tell people that some certificate is bad if it’s only valid for a few days.

    Ideally, certificates would only be valid for a few days, it should be automated anyway. This has other downsides as I can imagine, like creation of more traffic. My self signed CA for my home LAN has 4 days as standard, and it works perfectly fine.










  • Reading this, the return impl complexity seemed insane.

    Then, by accident, i programmed on a pet project until 4 in the night, and boom, I’ve had the exact problem they’re solving. Remembered that I usually need an extra lifetime in the impl definition, and boom, it worked. Doesn’t seem so insane anymore.

    (Was working on a little Webservice with warp, and returning their filters from a function)