“One quantitative benefit is that the maximum lifetime of certificates sets a bound on the size of certificate revocation lists. John Schanck has done heroic work on CRLite at Mozilla to compress CRLs, and the reduction from 398 days to 47 days further shrinks them by a factor of more than 8. For Let’s Encrypt the current limit is 90, so a more modest but still useful factor of 2.”
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PS. Saw this insightful comment over on Lobsters:
“One quantitative benefit is that the maximum lifetime of certificates sets a bound on the size of certificate revocation lists. John Schanck has done heroic work on CRLite at Mozilla to compress CRLs, and the reduction from 398 days to 47 days further shrinks them by a factor of more than 8. For Let’s Encrypt the current limit is 90, so a more modest but still useful factor of 2.”
https://lobste.rs/s/r2bamx/decreasing_certificate_lifetimes_...