Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography
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Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography
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Re: Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography
#2The post Snowden decade wouldn't have been the same without them. Cudos!
Re: Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography
#3This is from a month ago. Here is a link to the previous HN thread:
Re: Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography
#4Congratulations to Let’s Encrypt.
I would also like to do a shoutout to software like Caddy Server which automatically provisions with TLS using Let’s Encrypt. Doing this removes another barrier to adoption.
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#5Next project: "Let's Interoperate" Total portability of data,
authentication, contact lists, and full inter-working of chat and AV
protocols soming soon! ?
After breaking the certificate racket, let's end the tech walled-garden monopolies.
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#6The post Snowden decade wouldn't have been the same without them. Cudos!
What about the theory that the NIST encryption curves may be backdoored ?
If this is the case, if I would be the NSA I would strongly push for free cryptography, to make sure that only the US can decrypt the communications and have a strategic advantage.
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#7Congratulations to Let’s Encrypt. I would also like to do a shoutout to software like Caddy Server which automatically provisions with TLS using Let’s Encrypt. Doing this removes another barrier to adoption.
Thank you for the shoutout! Both projects have definitely been a community effort. There are many people and sponsors to thank.
I've worked on both Let's Encrypt and Caddy. Indeed, the goal with Caddy is to set the gold standard for other software to follow. I'd say Let's Encrypt does the heavy lifting in this space, though. It's truly a remarkable team and infrastructure.
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#8They have done so much in real world crypto, I feel like they should be the ones handinf out prizes and awards. The single biggest improvement in transport security since public key crypto imo.
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#9This is a very nice recognition! I realized that the registrar I have my personal site with purposefully does not support Let's Encrypt as a CA. Anyone have a registrar they'd recommend these days to transfer a domain to? FYI, the crappy registrar/host in question is namecheap.com so you can avoid them in the future.
Re: Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography
#10This is a very nice recognition! I realized that the registrar I have my personal site with purposefully does not support Let's Encrypt as a CA. Anyone have a registrar they'd recommend these days to transfer a domain to? FYI, the crappy registrar/host in question is namecheap.com so you can avoid them in the future.
The registrar doesn't really have much to say about which CA you use, but a hosting provider would.
Given that all certs are limited to a year, we're only a few steps away from the Let's Encrypt setup being automated everywhere.