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Paid SSL vs Letsencrypt (lemmy.ml)
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I'm curious what the benefits are of paying for SSL certificates vs using a free provider such as letsencrypt.

What exactly are you trusting a cert provider with and what are the security implications? What attack vectors do you open yourself up to when trusting a certificate authority with your websites' certificates?

In what way could it benefit security and/or privacy to utilize a paid service?

And finally, which paid SSL providers are considered trustworthy?

I know Digicert is a big player, but their prices are insane. Comodo seems like a good affordable option, but is it a trustworthy company?

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[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Certain unnamed companies cough~google~ doesn’t like to trust Let Encrypt its definitely not an abuse of an illegal monopoly they have good reasons I promise.

But the whole point behind using a signed certificate is that other people can look at you and immediately know you are who you say you are if a company doesn’t trust you it doesn’t really matter what the motivation is you might as well use a self signed certificate.

Paid certificates have the money to make sure everyone trusts them and has a reputation to maintain so are more likely to defend a legitimate complaint.

99.999% of individuals it simply doesn’t matter(although you might have to look into it if you’re using android apps) but to a company the little bit that certification costs is worth every penny.

[-] dasgewisseextra@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Google is on of the biggest Lets Encrypt sponsors and where is LE not trusted?

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Most if the internet uses let's encrypt. You are using it right now

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