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Then we will not be worse off than we were before.

• dtech 9y ago
  We would be better off, since there now exists a protocol and extensive tooling for automatic certificate management. This allows a competitor (even a commercial) one to fill in the gap left by letsencrypt if they stop issuing certs.
• perlgeek 9y ago
  In the short term, some will be worse off, because their current certificates will be valid somewhere between 30 and 90 days, instead of the 0 to 365 that is common with traditional certificates. Still, it's worth it. I have some private sites that now have TLS thanks to let's encrypt, which were plain HTTP before. I still wish for a second free, automated CA. Just to have redundancy.