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Let's Encrypt Takes Free “Wildcard” Certificates Live

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday March 14 2018, @02:16PM   
from the simple-cypers dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Arstechnica reports

In July of 2017, the nonprofit certificate authority Let's Encrypt promised to deliver something that would put secure websites and Web applications within reach of any Internet user: free "wildcard" certificates to enable secure HTTP connections for entire domains. Today, Let's Encrypt took that promised service live, in addition to a new version of the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol, an interface that can be used by a variety of client software packages to automate verification of certificate requests.

[....]Many hosting providers already support the registration of Let's Encrypt certificates to varying degrees. But Let's Encrypt's free certificate offering hasn't been snapped up by some larger hosting providers—such as GoDaddy—who also sell SSL certificates to their customers.

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• Re:No (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday March 14 2018, @06:41PM

  by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday March 14 2018, @06:41PM (#652538)

  No, there aren't really alternatives when your two choices are a free certificate that requires stupid amounts of admin time to manage, or a cert from a "normal" provider that is charging anywhere from two to four orders of magnitude more than is reasonable. $1 a year for a DV multi-SAN cert is reasonable, anything more is not. $50 for three years is reasonable for an EV cert, anything more is not.

  You seem to have identified a wonderful opportunity, and untapped market, and have the highly-profitable solution to its needs.
  Looking forward to seeing you become a millionaire or a billionaire soon. What's your company's name going to be ?

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