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Agreed! What were we using before Let's Encrypt again? Maybe just plain HTTP
either you used http, self signed if you did not mind the warning, and i remember there being one company that did offer free certificates that validated, but cant remember the name of it
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Agreed! What were we using before Let's Encrypt again? Maybe just plain HTTP
either you used http, self signed if you did not mind the warning, and i remember there being one company that did offer free certificates that validated, but cant remember the name of it
You're probably thinking of StartSSL, and it was a bit of a pain to get it done.
Wow. Feels like Let’s encrypt been around for longer.
Agreed! What were we using before Let's Encrypt again? Maybe just plain HTTP
And you try telling young people that ACME is a walk in the park, and they won't believe you...
Let's Encrypt was _huge_ in making it's absurd to not have TLS and now we (I, at least) take it for granted because it's just the baseline for any website I build. Incredible, free service that helped make the web a more secure place. What a wonderful service - thank you to the entire team. The CEO at my last company (2022) refused to use Let's Encrypt because "it looked cheap to customers". That is absurd to me beca…
I just people who use GoDaddy. They were the one company supporting SOPA when the entire rest of the internet was opposed to SOPA. It's very obvious GoDaddy is run by "business-bros" and not hackers or tech bros.
New de-facto requirement that you need to receive the blessing of a CA to make use of basic web platform features... not so good.
Aren't they only 45 days [1] old ?
Let's Encrypt was _huge_ in making it's absurd to not have TLS and now we (I, at least) take it for granted because it's just the baseline for any website I build. Incredible, free service that helped make the web a more secure place. What a wonderful service - thank you to the entire team. The CEO at my last company (2022) refused to use Let's Encrypt because "it looked cheap to customers". That is absurd to me beca…
I sort of understand this, although it does feel like going "bcrypt is so easy to use it's enabling standards agencies to force me to use something newer than MD5". Like, yeah, once the secure way is sufficiently easy to use, we can then push everyone off the insecure way; that's how it's supposed to work.
Let's Encrypt was _huge_ in making it's absurd to not have TLS and now we (I, at least) take it for granted because it's just the baseline for any website I build. Incredible, free service that helped make the web a more secure place. What a wonderful service - thank you to the entire team. The CEO at my last company (2022) refused to use Let's Encrypt because "it looked cheap to customers". That is absurd to me beca…