Let's Encrypt
For Let's Encrypt, profile or product is shortlived; maximum validity (days) is 6; still issuing tls certificates is yes; notes is Validity Period is stated as 160 hours in the profile table; qualifies as a Short-Lived Subscriber Certificate under the Baseline Requirements and needs no revocation information, recorded from its source on 2026-08-18.
- Certificate Authority
- Let's Encrypt verified
- Profile or Product
- shortlived our reading
- Maximum validity (days)
- 6
- Still issuing TLS certificates
- yes our reading
- Notes
- Validity Period is stated as 160 hours in the profile table; qualifies as a Short-Lived Subscriber Certificate under the Baseline Requirements and needs no revocation information. our reading
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
The shortlived profile is identical to the tlsserver profile, with one key distinction: the resulting certificate is only valid for 6ish days.
— letsencrypt.org, retrieved 2026-08-18
Source
- letsencrypt.orghttps://letsencrypt.org/docs/profiles/