Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

Re:Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the... by kaoD on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @12:26PM (#8624986)

Perhaps you should understand a system before slandering it? As others have said, encryption without authentication is useless.

Running a CA has an associated cost, including maintenance, security, etc. That's what you pay for when you acquire a certificate. Whether current market prices' markup is too high would be a different question, but paying for a certificate is definitely not spending 200$ to look cool.

CAs are the best known way (at the moment) to authenticate through insecure channels (before anyone brings pìnned certs or WoT, read this comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8616766)

EDIT: You can downvote all you want but I'm still right. Excuse my tone, but slandering a system without an intimate understanding of the "how"s and the "why"s (i.e. spreading FUD) hurts everyone in the long run.

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Re:Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the... by jsmthrowaway on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @03:09PM (#8626018)

That's the third comment of yours in which I've seen you taunt downvoters via edits in this thread alone. That's why I'm downvoting you. Knock it off, please.

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Re:Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the... by kaoD on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @04:46PM (#8626555)

I'm sorry it came across as a taunt, I didn't mean it like that.

Downvote sprees without an explanation detract from healthy discussion since they basically mean "I'm so mad about how wrong you are that I don't even care about why you think you are right".

I guess I'll just ignore them...

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Re:Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the... by dang on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @04:07AM (#8628981)

Do please ignore them. That's what the HN guidelines ask.

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