<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Aaron,<br><br></div>there has been a discussion on the OWASP Community Mailing-List, too:<br>1st Message: <a href="http://lists.owasp.org/pipermail/owasp-community/2014-November/000444.html">http://lists.owasp.org/pipermail/owasp-community/2014-November/000444.html</a> '[Owasp-community] Free and open certificate authority coming in 2015'.<br><br></div>Kind regards<br><div>Torsten<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-25 11:09 GMT+01:00 L. Aaron Kaplan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kaplan@cert.at" target="_blank">kaplan@cert.at</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi *,<br>
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A couple of days, I stumbled across <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/" target="_blank">https://letsencrypt.org/</a>. Somehow it highly reminded me of <a href="http://cacert.org" target="_blank">cacert.org</a>.<br>
On the other hand, they seem to be going further by automating SSL certificate creation, CSR signing etc. while doing less work on the WoT part of <a href="http://cacert.org" target="_blank">cacert.org</a>.<br>
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Did someone here look into <a href="http://letsencrypt.org" target="_blank">letsencrypt.org</a> in more detail and could you share your impressions?<br>
Could this be a <a href="http://cacert.org" target="_blank">cacert.org</a> version 2.0? Or an <a href="http://startssl.com" target="_blank">startssl.com</a> killer? [1]<br>
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More details on how it works: <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/getinvolved/" target="_blank">https://letsencrypt.org/getinvolved/</a>, <a href="https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec" target="_blank">https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec</a><br>
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My gut feeling tells me that DANE is probably a better tech.... but so was Betamax.<br>
Curious about your feedback.<br>
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Best,<br>
Aaron.<br>
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[1] BTW: my apologies for the still missing updated <a href="http://git.bettercrypto.org" target="_blank">git.bettercrypto.org</a> certificate! The reason is that <a href="http://startssl.com" target="_blank">startssl.com</a> says they signed the CSR but I seem not to be able to download the .pem certificate. Something went wrong with most probably the SSL client certificate to authenticate me. Might have to switch to a different CA :(<br>
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