Re: 2 questions

That project, if successful, will reduce the already-low price of a TLS certificate.

The new enrollment protocol that was discussed in the ACME BoF, if successful, will lower the already-low administrative burden of getting and renewing a certificate.

Neither will make HTTPS free.

Yoav

> On Apr 1, 2015, at 6:51 AM, ChanMaxthon <xcvista@me.com> wrote:
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> Just wondering, have you guys heard of Let's Encrypt project led by EFF and backed by a few major companies including Cisco, providing SSL certificates with a valid trust chain to everybody for free? If that project is successful we may be able to treat any plaintext traffic as deprecated - just deprecate plaintext HTTP/2 upon release as well as plain HTTP/1.1
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>> On Apr 1, 2015, at 07:15, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
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>>> On 01/04/15 00:07, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>>> The only real solution is to make make privacy a protected human right.
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>> It is in theory, says the UDHR. [1] But I think we've wandered far
>> from this list's remit. Happy to continue off list though, or you
>> could sign up to the (quite new) hrpc@irtf.org list [2] that was
>> previously hosted at. [3]  ([3] was just migrated to [2] yesterday.)
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>> S.
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>> [1] http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml/index.shtml#a12
>> [2] https://irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/hrpc
>> [3] https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/hrpc
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