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Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

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489 points gslin | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 06:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.483s | 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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1. ta1243 ◴[20 Nov 24 08:28 UTC] No.42191829[source]▶
Our company bans the use of letsencrypt because of the legal terms. Nobody at the CxO level will sign off on it, so we end up paying whatever to globalsign.
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2. seszett ◴[20 Nov 24 08:40 UTC] No.42191898[source]▶
What legal terms do they find objectionable?

What about ZeroSSL, which is basically interchangeable with Let's Encrypt?