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  • AreaKode@lemmy.world
    503·
    6 days ago

    As a sysadmin, fuck certificates. They are the bane of my existence. I vote we abolish certs and go Irish honor system!

    • Bappity@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      6 days ago

      certificates fucking destroy everything in my work for an hour once every year because of expiry

      • lud@lemm.ee
        20·
        6 days ago

        You are supposed to be tracking when they expire and then renew/replace them before they expire.

        • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
          9·
          6 days ago

          You are supposed to be tracking when they expire and then renew/replace them before they expire.

          I’ve been told that, as well, but I’m not sure I see it… Seems like a lot of effort… (This is sarcasm. Or is it just too much honesty?)

      • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
        11·
        6 days ago

        Certs have existed a long time, are never implemented correctly, and the expiration cycle that is supposed to bolster security just causes pain as a result.

        Certs should just be redesigned to have a kill switch. CRLs were supposed to handle that, but are rarely implemented or implemented correctly.

        Certs are also used in so many places where they may not be suited to the task, but because they exist, they’ve become the de-facto standard.

        A temporal expiration system seems flawed from the beginning anyway. What, you don’t trust your system anymore just because time has passed? Time is always passing. Are we all secretly racist against clocks now?

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
      4·
      5 days ago

      Are you talking licenses or certificates? Because if certificates are not automated that’s not a problem with certificates but with administration.