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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    zerossl.com
    
    www.sslforfree.com
    
    Cloudflare if you route traffic through them (you might consider this a string)
    
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