<div dir="ltr">As long as they have processes in place to verify the authenticity of who they issue the cert to, why not?<div><br></div><div>Charging money for the service doesn't make it any more trustworthy.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 November 2014 10:42, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com" target="_blank">Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Would you trust a CA who gave our certs to any one ?<br>
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Alex<br>
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> From: AusNOG [mailto:<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] On Behalf Of<br>
> Ernie<br>
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2014 10:34 AM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
> Subject: [AusNOG] Lets Encrypt<br>
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> I was just reading on Slashdot this morning about a new certificate authority<br>
> caleed Let's Encrypt which is a joint effort from EFF, Mozilla, Cisco, and<br>
> Akamai to encrypt the Internet. It's going to be a non-profit organization that<br>
> issues free certificates for any website.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-</a><br>
> entire-web<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/" target="_blank">https://letsencrypt.org/</a><br>
><br>
> My question is, will this screw up companies like Verisign/Thawte sales?<br>
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> - Ernie.<br>
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