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Why Let’s Encrypt is a bad idea

5 pointsby giladalmost 6 years ago

3 comments

dclawalmost 6 years ago
cPanel hosting servers by default utilize &#x27;AutoSSL&#x27; provided by Sectigo (formerly Comodo), but they are also free. Although I do still see cPanel customers on Let&#x27;s Encrypt certificates, this is a pretty shallow argument.<p>If there&#x27;s a key compromise at let&#x27;s encrypt, the beauty of their system is that the certificates generally get replaced automatically, and best practice is to have a cron check for them nightly, or at least weekly. There should be no situation like Equifax where it goes on for months.<p>Finally, my employer has moved on to AutoSSL via cPanel and Sectigo, but we still have some holdouts. I&#x27;m currently waiting over a month for a certificate issuance from Enom &amp; Sectigo because of some documentation BS. Been working with them for well over a decade, and it&#x27;s getting worse all the time. We have another cheap certificate from Sectigo via Enom, and we&#x27;re stuck in a fraud check hell, and they won&#x27;t even let us begin to configure it. We are a company in good standing with thousands of domains with Enom, and thousands of paid SSL certificates in our order pipeline over the years with Comodo&#x2F;Sectigo, and yet we can&#x27;t even get a $10 certificate issued in under 2 weeks.<p>These companies are dying, and they have themselves to blame.
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arkitaipalmost 6 years ago
This is largely an ignorant and poorly argumented rant in favor of paid SSL certs.
the_common_manalmost 6 years ago
I guess the gripe is with the let&#x27;s encrypt monopoly? I am still hoping acme gets implemented by other providers.