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StartSSL and CAcert have existed long before Let's Encrypt was even started.
by ultramancool 11y ago
StartSSL and CAcert have existed long before Let's Encrypt was even started.
- RadioactiveMan 11y agoIf CAcert isn't usually trusted and StartSSL is not free for commercial use, are they really alternatives?
- pmlnr 11y agoStartSSL is a b* to use, the free tier. I can't renew a cert before it expires.
- breser 11y agoThat's not exactly true. You can renew it before it expires. You just can't renew it until it is nearly expired. I think it's like a 2 week window or something like that. The bigger complaint about StartSSL should be that if you need to revoke the certificate you have to pay for it. For a free service though I don't think their requirements are too terrible.
- geofft 11y agoThat wouldn't be such a problem given that most SSL stacks (correctly, IMO) ignore revocation checking... except that you can't get a new cert without revoking the old one. It would otherwise be reasonable to determine you don't care about getting it revoked (and therefore don't want to fund the revocation infrastructure, like a highly-available OCSP responder) but you just want a new cert.
- nly 11y agoAnd WoSign.
- niersi 11y agoRight, and CNNIC.