Scaling the Let's Encrypt rate limits to prepare for a billion active TLS cert(letsencrypt.org)

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Scaling the Let's Encrypt rate limits to prepare for a billion active TLS cert

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/30/scaling-rate-limits/

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> Conveniently, the difference between the TAT and the current time can then be returned to the subscriber in a Retry-After header, informing their client exactly how long to wait before trying again.

I hope they know to add in a small amount of anti-synchronization randomness to the exactly-calculated “retry-after” delay.

DivineEntropyletztes Jahr

Just before it's returned to the caller: https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/blob/0d7ea60b2cb6fa35...