Comment on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative?
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoThe CA cannot decypt: they don’t have the secret key which only the server has. When requesting a new certificate from the CA, the server generated a secret key (aka private key) and then generated a derived value that goes into a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). The CSR is what the CA receives, not the secret key, and then the CA returns the certificate file to the server, which has been endorsed by the CA and thus trusted by the user base.
Mihies@programming.dev 6 days ago
Yep, you guys are right.