On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Daniel Cater via dev-security-policy <
dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, 4 March 2017 21:21:41 UTC, Jeremy Rowley  wrote:
> > Common practice amongst certain cas. There were several cas that have
> always opposed cert validity periods longer than three years. This
> opposition lead to the reducing the validity period first to 60 months then
> to 39 months.
>
> The reason I brought this up is that I found this certificate in the wild
> with a validity of almost 124 months (10 years and 4 months):
> https://crt.sh/?id=710954&opt=cablint,x509lint
>
> I read the cablint warning and wondered if the certificate was in breach
> of any pre-BR policies at the time that it was issued, but I assume not.
>
> Note that the certificate is live and trusted by browsers that haven't yet
> blocked SHA-1 certificates: https://newleaderscouncil.org/


Even if SHA-1 was still enabled, Chrome blocked such certificates.

Currently Chrome sets the absolute upper max at 10 years if pre-BRs, 5
years if BR effective date, and 3 years after the sunset. My hope for
Chrome 59 is to change that to 3 years across the board soon, with further
reductions thereafter.
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