Let's Encrypt root certificate trusted by Mozilla

by _jomo on 8/5/2016, 3:57 PM with 160 comments
  • by xutopia on 8/5/2016, 4:28 PM

    The one thing stopping adoption for a lot of people is wilcard support.

    https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/please-support-wildcard-...

  • by mholt on 8/5/2016, 6:14 PM
  • by UnoriginalGuy on 8/5/2016, 4:13 PM

    Just to be clear, this is important because eventually Let's Encrypt wants to no longer have to cross-sign their certificates for them to be considered valid.

    For that to happen they have to be added as a trusted CA in most major platforms (and Firefox which has their own CA store for some reason).

  • by chillydawg on 8/5/2016, 4:24 PM

    Excellent news. The more trust the better. It's still no good using LE for API endpoints as many client libs (java, etc) don't trust it or it's cross-signer.

  • by lllorddino on 8/5/2016, 4:55 PM

    Hacker News should switch from Comodo to Let's Encrypt. Scumbags attempted to trademark Let's Encrypt. https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html

  • by kibwen on 8/5/2016, 4:14 PM

    Have any other browsers announced their intent to do the same?

  • by wiradikusuma on 8/5/2016, 4:37 PM

    Question: any possible case of bad apples that make let's encrypt suddenly lose their trust? Eg bcoz it's free, it's used by "bad guys" just like .info tld.

  • by discreditable on 8/5/2016, 6:32 PM

    I find it a little hilarious that the cert for the Test URL, https://helloworld.letsencrypt.org is a 90-day certificate that is expired as of a long time ago.

    https://i.imgur.com/1bQLHuF.png

  • by cmdrfred on 8/5/2016, 4:16 PM

    I think comodo had the idea to be added as a root CA by Mozilla first. They should sue.

  • by 0xmohit on 8/5/2016, 4:27 PM

    It's about time that HN switches to Let's Encrypt.