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Re:SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed.... by m_sahaf on Thursday October 17, 2024 @02:27AM (#41866954)
The renewal of the key does not affect existing connections/sessions because they (the sessions) don't use the key directly. The private key is only used in the beginning to agree on the symmetric key, then the symmetric key is used from there onwards.
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