[AusNOG] Lets Encrypt

[Matt Palmer]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:18:42PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> On 19/11/14 10:34, Ernie wrote:
> > It's going to be a non-profit organization that issues free 
> > certificates for any website.
> > 
> > My question is, will this screw up companies like Verisign/Thawte 
> > sales?
> 
> Given that StartSSL have been around for years, and do exactly that: no.

No, they don't do "exactly that".  StartSSL's free tier is *explicitly* only
for personal use, and yes, they *do* check.  Let's Encrypt appears to be
ambivalent around the use that a certificate is put to, other than "it is
used to secure traffic to your site".

- Matt

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You have a 16-bit quantity, but 5 bits of it are here and 2 bits of it are
there... and 2 bits of it are back here and 3 bits of it are up there.  The
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looked like the C++ version of "hello world".	-- Matt Roberds, ASR