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by pjc50 134 days ago
> CAs want to sell certificates for everything under the sun

A serious problem with traditional CAs, which was partly solved by Let's Encrypt just giving them away. Everyone gradually realized that the "tying to real identity" function was both very expensive and of little value, compared to what people actually want which is "encryption, with reasonable certainty that it's not MITMd suddenly".