Subj : Bug in the Let's Encrypt certificate authority code
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Mar 05 2020 07:36 pm

On 04/03/2020 12:37 p.m., Richard Menedetter : August Abolins wrote:


 RM>The fix is easy and quick. Just renew the certificate as detailed
 RM>in their mail. takes less than 30 seconds.

The article makes it sound that the billion affected certificates and the
revocation process is "critical" due to the volume.  :(  Shameful reporting of
the original announcement.

If "renewing" is all that is required, then the revocation announcement seems 
to
be overblown indeed.

So, does "renewing" provide you with a different certificate and the processing
automatically revokes the old one in one simple step?

I only posted the news when I remembered that someone in FTN-world mentioned
they were using Let's Encrypt.


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