Happy birthday to Let’s Encrypt !

Huge thanks to everyone involved in making HTTPS available to everyone for free !

  • 0x01@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Man I love let’s encrypt, remember how terrible ssl was before the project landed?

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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      5 hours ago

      Crazy times. Nowadays it’s weird when a website doesn’t have https. Back then it was pretty much big companies only. And the price of a wildcard certificate…

    • leisesprecher@feddit.org
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      4 hours ago

      And if you remember, that this whole shebang was only started, because Snowden revealed that the NSA spied on all of us, it’s getting much much darker.

    • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.frOP
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      I did not have the money to pay the insane amounts these greedy for-profit certificate authorities asked, so I only remember the pain of trying to setup my self-signed root certificate on my several devices/browsers, and then being unable to recover my private key because I went over the top with securing it.