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Happy birthday to Let’s Encrypt !

Huge thanks to everyone involved in making HTTPS available to everyone for free !

  • 0x01@lemmy.mlEnglish
    109·
    12 hours ago

    Man I love let’s encrypt, remember how terrible ssl was before the project landed?

      • xthexderEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Oh man, I forgot about startssl until just now. I definitely had a few of those certs. If you wanted something fancy like a wildcard cert back then, you were paying $$$

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
      44·
      11 hours ago

      Crazy times. Nowadays it’s weird when a website doesn’t have https. Back then it was pretty much big companies only. And the price of a wildcard certificate…

    • leisesprecher@feddit.orgEnglish
      20·
      11 hours ago

      And if you remember, that this whole shebang was only started, because Snowden revealed that the NSA spied on all of us, it’s getting much much darker.

    • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.frOPEnglish
      24·
      12 hours ago

      I did not have the money to pay the insane amounts these greedy for-profit certificate authorities asked, so I only remember the pain of trying to setup my self-signed root certificate on my several devices/browsers, and then being unable to recover my private key because I went over the top with securing it.