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by SysArchitect 3539 days ago
A 1 year ban is a long time for a company that sells certs. It might be the end of Wosign.
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Interestingly - this is a ban on their roots.

How much do you want to bet they're already working out how to supply new and renewing customers with certs provided by some other CA?

I notice the most recent StartSSL cert I got has a 3 year validity instead of their previous standard of 1 year - presumably in the hope that when my cert needs renewing they'll be able to provide that service. (I do have a handful of their certs which will expire during this 1 year ban. I'll certainly be needing to go elsewhere to renew them (finally time to learn how to auto-deploy LetEncrypt certs to Amazon ELB I guess, or maybe move all those domains to Route53 - I probably should have made time for that already...

How about AWS Certificate Manager? Their certificates are free and integrated with AWS services like ELB.

https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/

(No doubt they're free because they're integrated with AWS services and can't be used elsewhere.)