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543 points gslin | 4 comments | 20 Nov 24 06:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.631s | 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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_betty_ ◴[20 Nov 24 09:02 UTC] No.42192021[source]▶
they were also pretty bad for performance due to the extra lookup (and reduction in caching)
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1. account42 ◴[20 Nov 24 09:31 UTC] No.42192187[source]▶
What extra lookup. AFAIU they are just like normal certificates but with a "customer paid extra" flag.
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2. _betty_ ◴[20 Nov 24 09:37 UTC] No.42192216[source]▶
they normally require a revocation lookup on the spot, and iirc there was differences in if they could or how stapling worked.
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3. _betty_ ◴[20 Nov 24 09:39 UTC] No.42192233[source]▶
https://simonhearne.com/2020/drop-ev-certs/
4. account42 ◴[20 Nov 24 10:38 UTC] No.42192599[source]▶
Interesting. Sounds like a cost that is entirely reasonable for use cases like online banking though.