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letsencrypt.org Now in public Beta

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Thought I should do a follow up post on the status of this project

 

 

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). ISRG is a California public benefit corporation, and is recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501©(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

 

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html

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If it's from the US, I don't trust it.

 

My web browser is Chinese and my mail account and search engine is Russian.

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What exactly is this? poked around on the site and it just seems to get you past school firewalls

 

 

 

 

 

 

In cryptography, a certificate authority or certification authority (CA) is an entity that issues digital certificates. A digital certificate certifies the ownership of a public key by the named subject of the certificate. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority

 

 

basically it is the basis system we use to make sure we can trust that the website we go to is actually the one it says it is. 

 

 

It has nothing to do with getting around firewalls. 

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If it's from the US, I don't trust it.

 

My web browser is Chinese and my mail account and search engine is Russian.

It is open source, If you have reason to doubt it,  review the code. see for yourself if it is legit

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Can you please expand the opening post explaining exactly what the website is, and why we should care that it's in public beta? I'd advise posting a brief explanation of what a certificate authority is and what potential practical uses it has.

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Can you please expand the opening post explaining exactly what the website is, and why we should care that it's in public beta? I'd advise posting a brief explanation of what a certificate authority is and what potential practical uses it has.

 

 

Thanks, I have changed it. 

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If it's from the US, I don't trust it.

 

My web browser is Chinese and my mail account and search engine is Russian.

Why don't you trust it? (If you mean what I think you mean, you should already trust it because it's cross signed by a bunch of other CAs)

 

Here's the first site I found with a LE cert: https://www.zugtv.de/

See if it gives you a certificate error.

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If it's from a surveillance state hell bent on monitoring everything everywhere, I don't trust it.

 

My web browser browser e-mail provider and search engine are from surveillance states that would like to be monitoring everything, but due to their limited resources focus on domestic dissident suppression and industrial espionage.

 

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Why don't you trust it? (If you mean what I think you mean, you should already trust it because it's cross signed by a bunch of other CAs)

 

Here's the first site I found with a LE cert: https://www.zugtv.de/

See if it gives you a certificate error.

It says there is no certificate transparency and it uses obsolete TLS 1.2...

No idea what it means, but especially that obsolete thing worries me.

Don't get errors tho, but still. it's something and it works.

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Didn't this happen quite a while ago?
Yep, December 3. Guess nobody posted it on the forum until now.

 

Pretty great stuff. Lots of respectable companies behind it such as Mozilla, the EFF and IdenTrust so I am not worried about the quality of the service.

Too bad NetGear made it a pain in the ass to use a trusted SSL cert on their NASes...

 

 

 

If it's from the US, I don't trust it.

 

My web browser is Chinese and my mail account and search engine is Russian.

I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not.

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It says there is no certificate transparency and it uses obsolete TLS 1.2...

No idea what it means, but especially that obsolete thing worries me.

Don't get errors tho, but still. it's something and it works.

 TLS1.2 is not obsolete TLS1.3 is only in draft.   The 'No certificate transparency' message is not a major cause for concern.

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Thought I should do a follow up post on the status of this project

 

 

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html

Interesting.

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It says there is no certificate transparency and it uses obsolete TLS 1.2...

No idea what it means, but especially that obsolete thing worries me.

Don't get errors tho, but still. it's something and it works.

TLS1.2 is the latest stream encryption standard in common use on the web, and has nothing to do with the cert itself.

 

What do you mean by transparency though? (or, what error did your browser give you) since that site should be on crt.sh

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It's been in public beta for a while - I have a le cert on my site, and it has been working fine (though I think it expires soon, so I need to remember to renew it).

The news post you linked is from the 3rd December.

HTTP/2 203

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