[Nottingham] Free Libre encrypted connections (https) ?

[Andy Smith]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:49:16AM +0000, Jason Irwin wrote:
> On 20/01/16 11:14, Martin wrote:
> > Rather than submit to the hegemony of the non-free closed (not always
> > trustworthy) club of "certificate authorities", what freedom options do
> > we have for encryptedly working with the main group of web browsers?
> Well, there's letsencrypt. More than good enough for personal/project
> use I'd say.

letsencrypt looks like the way forward for everyone right now.

There's also DANE, which is securing your DNS with DNSSEC and then
putting the TLS data into the DNS, so is a means of eventually
abolishing the CA cartel^Wmodel.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Named_Entities

But that isn't really usable yet.

Cheers,
Andy

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