[AusNOG] Lets Encrypt

[Nathan Gardiner]

To be fair, this is a new layer of infrastructure using challenge/response
tests to establish ownership of a resource before issuing, managing and
automatically renewing SSL certificates. It appears that it requires an
agent to be run to maintain the trust for these certificates.


On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <
Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com> wrote:

> Would you trust a CA who gave our certs to any one ?
>
> Alex
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of
> > Ernie
> > Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2014 10:34 AM
> > To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> > Subject: [AusNOG] Lets Encrypt
> >
> > I was just reading on Slashdot this morning about a new certificate
> authority
> > caleed Let's Encrypt which is a joint effort from EFF, Mozilla, Cisco,
> and
> > Akamai to encrypt the Internet. It's going to be a non-profit
> organization that
> > issues free certificates for any website.
> >
> > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-
> > entire-web
> >
> > https://letsencrypt.org/
> >
> > My question is, will this screw up companies like Verisign/Thawte sales?
> >
> >
> >
> > - Ernie.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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