The 47-Day Certificate Ultimatum: How Browsers Broke the CA Cartel

For twenty years, Certificate Authorities ran the perfect protection racket. Then SHA-1 got shattered, Apple went rogue, and certificates went from lasting 3 years to 47 days. This is the story of how browsers broke the CA cartel, and why your manual certificate process is about to become your biggest problem.

Good write up, sharing with colleagues to get them onboard with automating certs! (a forever process...)