[Cryptography] New free TLS CA coming

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net
Tue Nov 18 18:21:52 EST 2014


On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 12:14 -0800, Mark Atwood wrote: 
> So Mozilla et al have been giving CAcert the runaround for over 4 years
> now, and then suddenly they create a more centralized less audited
> "Let's Encrypt" shows up, and it's welcomed into the root?
> 
> How... interesting.
Well not really a surprise, is it?

Mozilla never really acts with the security of their users in mind.
Countless of highly untrustworthy CAs in their bundle and lots of
insecure default settings demonstrate this quite well.

It's always all just about their money and popularity.


Cheers,
Chris.
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