Comment on Is HTTPS a scam?

• Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re free today. Maybe not tomorrow. But by then HTTP will have been “phased out” and asking the “security authority” for permission will have become common practice.

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  • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re a non profit backed by a ton of major internet players, it’s not going to happen. letsencrypt.org/about/

    What you’re talking about was already the situation before LE existed, we’re not going back to that. There’s other free providers now too.

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    • Dr_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok. That’s a good argument. I didn’t realize that the forces for good here were so strong in this.

      But frankly I’d rather not depend on them either.

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      • towerful@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, self-sign your own certs and deal with the implications of not being a trusted root certificate authority

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    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just out of curiosity, what other trusted certificate authorities are there that offer ssl certs for free and no strings attached other than letsencrypt?

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      • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        • zerossl.com
        • www.sslforfree.com
        • Cloudflare if you route traffic through them (you might consider this a string)

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