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IdenTrust's buisness also spans to managing private CAs for companies, which includes managing the HSM and private keys. Also, the companies who hire IdenTrust
by zinekeller 6y ago
IdenTrust's buisness also spans to managing private CAs for companies, which includes managing the HSM and private keys. Also, the companies who hire IdenTrust and similar companies are not that involved in technology. Also, security experts who can manage this safely is a tad harder to find and requests higher wages than your standard IT staff.
TLDR: yes, but some companies wants another company to manage their certs.
- mrweasel 6y agoIn those cases IdenTrust bought an insane amount of goodwill from some of the most technical people online by supporting Let’s Encrypt.
- strombofulous 6y agoThey also helped basically make it a requirement by allowing google to flag http pages as insecure and convince the public that it's necessary