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The thing that has always impressed me the most about Let's Encrypt has been Boulder (their CA server). Not for its code quality, but the fact that they have be
by diafygi 8y ago
The thing that has always impressed me the most about Let's Encrypt has been Boulder (their CA server). Not for its code quality, but the fact that they have been able to create a fully transparent, open-source CA server that meets the Web PKI and the CA/Browser forum's baseline requirements.
Most of the time in incredibly regulated sectors, most of the products you see are huge, proprietary, and generally crap. It's such a rare treat to see a nice, simple thing that works in such a bureaucratic environment.
It really shows that Let's Encrypt are completely driven by wanting this thing to exist and be amazing, since they will slog through all the baseline requirements to get there. Most other open source initiatives fail when they reach the compliance stage because the work just becomes completely not fun.
Kudos to all the people at Let's Encrypt, and I wish y'all a very happy new year!
- cpach 8y agoI agree, it’s really impressive. Sometimes it’s not only the software that matters, but also things like seeing potential for simplifying bureaucracy. With that said I have huge amounts of respect for all the people (e.g. at Mozilla) who makes the CA system work.
- StudentStuff 8y agoI wouldn't call Boulder Open Source, but rather Libre as it is under MPL 2.0, a file level copyleft license.
- naniwaduni 8y agoWhat definitions of open source have any traction that the MPL, any version, is excluded?
- StudentStuff 8y agoOpen source as a term was popularized as a way to promote licenses that are not "viral" (aka requires release of modified versions of code). This is why many developers default to the BSD license and similar, despite how it allows others to come along and close up their work, like what Sony did with the PS4.