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Happy birthday to Let’s Encrypt !

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

  • RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Let’s Encrypt is amazing, but are there any equally trustworthy alternatives people could switch to if something bad happens to it?

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      39 minutes ago

      They came up with the ACME protocol, so presumably somebody could. The real barrier to entry is the cost of getting into that certificate chain of trust. I have no idea why it’s so difficult and expensive.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      If it begins to enshitify, someone will quickly take up the helm. It’s become so core now that someone like Cloudflare would just be like “We do this now.”

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Cloudflare sort of provides this now by being a MITM to secure your site between your server and the end user. But this requires you and your end user to trust Cloudflare.

        And fwiw the ACME protocol is open so anyone can implement it. I believe even the ACME software that EFF sends out allows you to choose your server with some configuration.