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Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web

Posted by Soulskill on from the respect-their-authority dept.

Peter Eckersley writes: Today EFF, Mozilla, Cisco, and Akamai announced a forthcoming project called Let's Encrypt. Let's Encrypt will be a certificate authority that issues free certificates to any website, using automated protocols (demo video here). Launching in summer 2015, we believe this will be the missing piece that deprecates the woefully insecure HTTP protocol in favor of HTTPS.

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  1. This is a huge first step! by Zeio · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They put the inventor of PGP in jail - Phil zimmerman. Reason: simple transport encryption - even without trust - makes Fedzilla and its police state angry.

    This would force the Fedzilla police state to obtain end-point warrants rather than be able to sniff the firehose.

    I would rather have transport encryption than nothing. Also, even if these are back doored by the NSA, the government would have to prove how they got the information without a warrant.

    This is an imperative first step.

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