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xorcist on Jan 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let's Encrypt Developer Preview

Or, we could just let registrars issue these certs.

Problem solved.

vertex-four on Jan 17, 2015 [–]

They were never going to for free - the ones that do sell certs make huge amounts of money off them. That's why LetsEncrypt exists - to push the market value of a trusted X.509 certificate close to 0.

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