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Letsencrypt has dramatically helped increase the amount of websites that are secured with SSL. Theyyre important, but not even close to being the sole certifica

Letsencrypt has dramatically helped increase the amount of websites that are secured with SSL. Theyyre important, but not even close to being the sole certificate authority. Besides: their stack is open and available. If monopoly would ever be a concern in the future, other CAs could spin up using the same software. But that doesn't seem something worth being concerned about right now.

isostatic 8y ago
It has, to the point that http is now a problem. Imagine that LE vanishes, what happens then? 62% of sites use letsencrypt [0], up from 35% in Nov 2017 [1]. Monopolies are bad, be they Microsoft or Google, and that's a worrying trend. [0] https://censys.io/certificates/report?q=tags%3Atrusted&field=parsed.issuer.organization.raw&max_buckets=50 https://censys.io/certificates/report?q=tags%3Atrusted&field... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744359 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744359