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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. Re:CAcert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What does consuming video and chewing up bandwidth have to do with privacy? Does https increase traffic that much?