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I think that's being too cautious. We're also working on a rollout, and won't be pausing it. It costs $3m/year to run it (someone already posted this link). T
by rgbrenner 10y ago
I think that's being too cautious. We're also working on a rollout, and won't be pausing it.
It costs $3m/year to run it (someone already posted this link).
Take a look at the sponsor cost:
https://letsencrypt.org/become-a-sponsor/ https://letsencrypt.org/become-a-sponsor/
And their sponsors:
https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/ https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/
They already have at least $2.4m from the 10 platinum and gold sponsors. And at least $270k from the 27 silver sponsors. That's the minimum total, and we're already close to the $3m.
Plus it's part of ISRG, which is backed by Akamai, Cisco, Mozilla, EFF, and a few others.
It sounds very unlikely they'll fail to raise the $3m they need any time soon. I think they'll need some kind of other event to occur first before that happens -- like a security breach, or getting removed from the browsers.