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I'm not too worried. If SSL becomes mandatory and no cheap/free solution is available there'll be a very strong incentive to build a new CA doing what Let's Enc

by simias 7y ago

I'm not too worried. If SSL becomes mandatory and no cheap/free solution is available there'll be a very strong incentive to build a new CA doing what Let's Encrypt does to replace it. Then it's "just" about getting browsers to trust the new CA and at this point I think the main threat is the Chrome monopoly, not Google buying Let's Encrypt. After all the CA system is effectively decentralized.

whatshisface 7y ago
>there'll be a very strong incentive A $0 incentive, to be specific.
dwild 7y ago
> Then it's "just" about getting browsers to trust the new CA and at this point I think the main threat is the Chrome monopoly, not Google buying Let's Encrypt. Even for Let's Encrypt it took 3 years before they were comfortable to abandon the IdenTrust cross signed certificate, and they won't even do it until July 2020, so a whole 5 years. That's from a very popular NPO supported by many corporation.