rpki-client stricter aging policy for Trust Anchor certificates commited to -current

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There has long been some concern in the networking communities, particularly the routing security part, about the use of very long lived Trust Anchor (TA) certificates in routing infrastructure.

Today Job Snijders (job@) commited code to
rpki-client(8)
to implement a gradual phase in of a stricter policy on TA certificates lifetimes.

The commit message reads,

Subject:    CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
From:       Job Snijders <job () cvs ! openbsd ! org>
Date:       2024-12-18 16:38:40


CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	job@cvs.openbsd.org	2024/12/18 09:38:40

Modified files:
	usr.sbin/rpki-client: cert.c 

Log message:
Schedule future rejection of ultra long-lived TA certificates

The RPKI ecosystem suffers from a partially unmitigated risk related to
long-lived Trust Anchor certificate issuances.

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