After much work in background and previous update covered here at soylentnews, the guys over at Let's Encrypt have finally given a launch schedule:
Let’s Encrypt has reached a point where we’re ready to announce our launch schedule.
- First certificate: Week of July 27, 2015
- General availability: Week of September 14, 2015
While this is a bit off from the original mid-2015 launch date, it's a great start towards encrypted web communications.
(Score: 2) by gnuman on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:25PM
Did IT embrace IPSec? No. Then they have problems with internal security.
Did IT embrace DNSSEC? No again! Then they complain that "CA" model is too centralized, but they completely ignored TLS-DANE, which 100% depends on DNSSEC.
What IT embraces is lazy, and then bitching that something is not perfect enough.
Let's Encrypt is just an attempt to take out the bread-and-butter of CA cartel, the domain-control certificates. Sure, there is at least one CA that issued free domain control certs, but only 1 per domain, and revocation is not possible without a fee (StartSSL out of Israel). Fortunately, Let's Encrypt maybe lazy enough for most IT to implement. Then again, I don't expect majority of current TLS cert users to switch to Let's Encrypt.