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Don't get me wrong: I don't object to the existence of non-profit/funded CAs like Let's Encrypt! The work they've been doing on making HTTPS the norm is excelle
by castillar76 2y ago
Don't get me wrong: I don't object to the existence of non-profit/funded CAs like Let's Encrypt! The work they've been doing on making HTTPS the norm is excellent. I just worry about a future in which the only option is a CA like that, as the other public CAs struggle with offering a product that competes with "but it's free!".
I also worry a bit about the amount of the Internet that now depends on Let's Encrypt, including a number of large enterprises. That didn't go very well the last time we had an 800-pound gorilla in the CA space, not to mention the availability problems that will occur if everyone depends on a single CA that then has an outage, a mass revocation problem, or has a disagreement with the browsers over issuance rules.