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Re:Let's Encrypt posts letter from executive director by CodesInChaos on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:37PM (#33873553)
A plain domain validated certificate cost like $10 for a year or two. So roughly the same cost as the domain name. Hardly a "high paywall".
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Re:Let's Encrypt posts letter from executive director by HideousKojima on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:53PM (#33873722)
It meant a paper trail via CC payments (though fraudsters were likely to use stolen CCs, and they probably needed a CC to buy the domain name in the first place). But yeah it's basically not fundamentally different.
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Re:Let's Encrypt posts letter from executive director by kelnos on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:18AM (#33877091)
Don't most domains cost $5 or less? I think it's pretty outrageous to have to spend 2x (or more) of the domain name cost to secure connections to it.
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Re:Let's Encrypt posts letter from executive director by manuelmoreale on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @05:12AM (#33877702)
Not sure where you found that figure but most domains definitely don’t cost 5 or less. Most domains are 10+ in my experience.
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