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I know that I can simply make my own private certificate authority that only I and my family trust. But is there some public provider like letsencrypt that is in a free-er part of the world than the US?

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think anyone is gonna solve that problem until it's actually a problem.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

I don't think anyone's going to solve the problem in general, to be honest.

Like, Let's Encrypts goal is super novel, but also expensive as shit to actually run, and requires a lot of coordination because it needs to be a trust authority. If this ever happened, it would probably be at the backing of some government structure, because I don't see many people wanting to jump at that as an expense.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 11 points 4 hours ago

It is a problem, and there are solutions.