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A comment on Let's Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates.

Re:Let's Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates by mino on Friday June 05, 2015 @02:19AM (#9664125)
> All ISRG keys are currently RSA keys. We are planning to generate ECDSA keys later this year.

Why, oh why, not ECDSA from the start?

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Re:Let's Encrypt Root and Intermediate Certificates by bifurcation on Friday June 05, 2015 @09:45AM (#9665432)
Unfortunately, ECDSA support is not as universal as RSA.

But I understand that the plan is to start working on ECDSA support pretty much as soon as the first root is stood up, so it shouldn't be long after the start.

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