[Cryptography] So long to Startcom

[John Levine]

In article <9E2652BD-EC33-4BB0-94A4-C210B45B324D at akamai.com> you write:
>>    These days there's little reason to use anyone other than Let's
>    Encrypt for DV certificates.
>
>Is anyone bothered by that single point of failure?  If LE has problems or falls far short of its funding
>needs, many people will be scrambling to renew their certificates in a very short period of time, and one or
>more commercial entities is going to reap a windfall.

ACME is an open spec, there's nothing other than money preventing
someone from starting another service that works the same way.

I'm not so concerned about LE failing, since it has a lot of sponsors
who can if needed write million dollar checks.

R's,
John