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Only if you pin a CA/Browser Forum-approved certificate. But you don't have to do that.

You can instead pin a self-signed or private CA-signed certificate, and then it can have the maximum lifetime you're comfortable with and that the software supports. A related option is to ship your app with a copy of your private CA certificate(s) and configure the HTTPS client to trust those in addition to, or instead of, the system-provided CAs.

I'm not sure how viable these approaches are on more locked-down platforms (like smartphones) and, even if they are viable today, whether they will remain viable in the future. It's also only good for full apps; anything that uses the system browser has to stick with the system CAs.






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