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Happy birthday to Let’s Encrypt !

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

  • zerozakuEnglish
    9•1 month ago

    Can anyone fill me on this? Why is it so significant?

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂEnglish
      39•1 month ago

      HTTPS certs used to be very expensive and technically complicated, making it out of reach for most smaller orgs. Let’s Encrypt brought easy mass adoption and changed encryption availability on the web for everyone.

      • @[email protected]English
        7•29 days ago

        They also made it a open protocol (the ACME protocol), so now there’s a bunch of certificate providers that implement the same protocol and thus can work with the same client apps (Certbot, acme.sh, etc). I know Sectigo and GoDaddy support ACME at least. So even if you don’t use Let’s Encrypt, you can still benefit from their work.

    • @[email protected]English
      17•1 month ago

      It is the free, easy way to get an SSL cert (plus automated renewals). Without it, maybe HTTPS wouldn’t have been so omnipresent.

      • @rottingleafEnglish
        2•1 month ago

        And it shouldn’t have been, SSL PKI is an intentionally rigged architecture. It’s intended for nation-states to be able to abuse it.

        I’d like much more some kind of overlay encryption over HTTP based on web of trust and what not. Like those distributed imageboards people were trying to make with steganography in emotion.

        It’s a trap. Everybody is already in it and it has already been activated, so - the discussion would be of historical interest only.