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A comment on Draft Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement. Parent comment

Re:Draft Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement by _cpancake on Thursday May 21, 2015 @10:32PM (#9586380)
Part of HTTPS is making sure that the person you're talking to is the person you think you're talking to.
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Re:Draft Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement by the8472 on Friday May 22, 2015 @04:50AM (#9587182)
That's what EV certificates are for.

Otherwise https only gurantees that you're actually talking to the domain you see in the URL, not who that domain belongs to.

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