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EFF will launch a free certificate authority
Not a big fan of the EFF myself but those are big and great news:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web
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Great, first it was cloudflare with the free ssl and now this, let's hope it lower the prices from big companies that issue SSL certs
Looks like the money printers might have their value lessend by this!
EFF!
Bad news for jobs that rely on certificate authorities bringing home the bacon. Good news for everyone else. This has the potential to turn the market upside down, and it was surely always something we knew would happen eventually. The term "trusted" has always been the difference between high cost and no cost, and it's been an expensive club to join.
Interested to watch this unfold. In before certificate authorities start paying big bucks to anyone who will leave the EFF off the "trusted authority" list.
I always knew this would happen, it was only a matter of time, honestly I think in the long term it will be an excellent thing, I do feel for those as @jar said who's companies will simply crumble as a result.
@Jar What do you think about the regulation, I mean is there a specific requirement in the US for certificate authorities?
I always assumed it was just a matter of private agreements with major software manufacturers. Truthfully I never researched how to get on that list, but given that the software manufacturers are the key, I always assumed it was a private agreement.
Yeah and the abolition of slavery in the USA was a disaster for all those people employed in the slave trading industry, etc. Poor sobs, how were they going to "bring home the bacon" after that.
They're starting with Mozilla, also Google will be hard-pressed to find excuses not to support this. And these two are already 70% of the browser market. So the ship [will have] already sailed.
Slavery? Calm down bro
Exciting...
Wowzers!!!
Maybe just another CAcert.org.
You haven't seen what's really happening in my beloved motherland by itself not to mention external influence
The fuel just raised by 30% yesterday
They have support from Mozilla already.
Really? I thought Mozilla turned them down - scores of applications use Mozilla's certs, Mono to name a big one.
^ This is (one of) the differentiating factors.
I'm sure CAcert.org setup, and only then sought partners/supporters/sponsors.
CAcert.org got Gentoo, OpenBSD, openSUSE, and etc.
But they didn't got the mayor software shippers.
Then what?
Looks very interesting, especially the way the intend on people issuing the certs.
"Let’s Encrypt CA" <--- it's specially for LETers )
If they provide free trusted SSL, I am in.
100% encrypted web?
Sounds like fun! Bad new for LET/LEB though (BSA?;)
I hope they will also put up a free tld, totally free for a totally encrypted web.
There are already some free TLDs, I like .cf alot
Not "totally free" at all.
CA must have big insurance policies!
Luke .onion?
No, I mean one for all net, maybe a different root DNS altogether, a distributed one, it is possible.
StartCom has been issuing free trusted certs since forever.