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Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

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543 points gslin | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 06:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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mrtksn ◴[20 Nov 24 07:49 UTC] No.42191644[source]▶
Hands down one of the greatest services out there, stopped a racket and made the internet secure.

I remember a time when having an HTTPS connection was for "serious" projects only because the cost of the certificate was much higher than the domain. You go commando and if it sticks then you purchase a certificate for a 100 bucks or something.

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dachris ◴[20 Nov 24 07:55 UTC] No.42191676[source]▶
There's still enough people out there who don't know better, manually (or auto-renew) purchasing new a certificate every year from their hosting provider like it's 2013.
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mrtksn ◴[20 Nov 24 08:04 UTC] No.42191711[source]▶
AFAIK there's things like Extended Validation Certificate Verification that used to make the browser address bar look more trustworthy by making it green but I don't know if its still a thing. At least in Safari, I don't see a green padlock anywhere.
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1. mrweasel ◴[20 Nov 24 08:21 UTC] No.42191791[source]▶
I remember our boss really wanted that green bar, so we got an extend validation certificate. What we had failed to realise is that they would only be issued to the actual legal name of your company, but not any other names you may be operating under. We had a B2C webshop, where we wanted the ev-cert, but because the B2C side of the business wasn't it's own legal entity, the cert we go issued was for our B2B name, which none of our customer customers knew and it looked like a scam.

The only good thing dealing with certificate resellers at the time was that they where really flexible in a lot of ways. We got our EV cert refunded, or "store credit" and used the money to buy normal certificates.