Posts tagged: tls

Wildcard TLS with Certbot and Cloudflare DNS-01 — a copy-paste walkthrough

A complete end-to-end guide to issuing a Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate with Certbot and a DNS-01 challenge against Cloudflare — exact commands, credentials setup, verification, and auto-renewal.

Why SSL Certificates Keep Shrinking — the 2-Year → 1-Year → 90-Day → 10-Day Story

The real reason SSL certificate lifetimes keep shrinking — from multi-year plans to 398 days to 200 days, and why we're heading to 47 days (with the confusing "10 days" being a completely different clock).