[AusNOG] Lets Encrypt

[Nick Savvides]

Well technically all CAs issue certs to anyone.

It’s a matter of validation of the identity, the operational management, OCSP availability, the governance and rigorousness of the processes at the CA.

Domain Validation, Organisationally Validation and Extended Validation all operate at different levels of assurance for the validation of the identity of enrolling party.


Nick.
 
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Nick Savvides,  Senior Principal Systems Engineer (Security)
nick_savvides at symantec.com, Mobile: +61 434 600 870

> On 19 Nov 2014, at 10:42 , 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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