Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt

Re:Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt by pfg on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:16PM (#11141742)

StartSSL and WoSign have been offering free, publicly trusted certificates with one year lifetimes (and the ability to renew for free) for quite some time.

The former doesn't allow commercial usage, while the latter operates in China. That's probably why it wasn't an option for a lot of people. (That, and the terrible UX at least in StartSSL's case.)

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Re:Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt by _ak on Saturday February 20, 2016 @04:58PM (#11142146)

StartSSL isn't free. They charge for certificate revocation.

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Re:Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt by beefhash on Sunday February 21, 2016 @01:31AM (#11143575)

Furthermore, their free certificates cannot be used for commercial purposes.

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Re:Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt by mehrdada on Sunday February 21, 2016 @04:13AM (#11143879)

I don't know why your comment is downvoted -- this is acutally a legitimate issue mentioned in their terms of service.

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Re:Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt by nailer on Sunday February 21, 2016 @08:21AM (#11144388)

StartSSL generally don't mention their terms, so a lot of the use of 'StartSSL Free' is commercial. People don't like to hear they've been misled (and shoot the messenger).

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Re:Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt by vsl on Monday February 22, 2016 @04:27AM (#11149601)

They actually started policing this and refuse to renew a certificate if they decide it's a commercial use. Happened to me and rather than argue with them (it wasn't), I bought a $5 one at ssls.com...

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