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Snakes3727today at 7:16 AM2 repliesview on HN

As someone who works at a company who has to manage millions of SSL certificates for IoT devices in extremely terrible network situations I dread this.

One of the biggest issues is handling renewals at scale, and I hate it. Another increasingly frusturation is challenges via DNS are not quick.


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nickftoday at 3:31 PM

I would strongly suggest that these certs have no reason to be from a public CA and thus you can (and should) move them to a private CA where these rules don't apply.

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nine_ktoday at 7:27 AM

Are these IoT devices expected to be accessible via a regular Web browser from the public Internet? Does each of them represent a separate domain than needs a separate certificate, which it must not share with other similar devices?