Cloudflare Is Building a Free Public CA to Rival Let’s Encrypt

9 days ago by Leo to c/news

Cloudflare is building a free, public Certificate Authority with ACME support to add more choice and resilience to the TLS ecosystem.
Feyd 16 points 9 days ago
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dev_null 1 point 8 days ago

How is that worse than now? Right now Let's Encrypt is a single point of failure, if I can setup my certs to go Let's Encrypt and then if Let's Encrypt is down go to Cloudflare, then surely that's better than not getting a cert at all when Let's Encrypt is down.

It's more redundancy. Am I missing something?

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Feyd 4 points 8 days ago
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dev_null 1 point 8 days ago

Same here, and currently Let's Encrypt is a central point of failure for my stuff. I don't use any Cloudflare services, so adding it as a fallback for Let's Encrypt seems like a good option to have.

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leo 1 point 8 days ago

As much as I don't want to see Cloudflare centralization, you're right here. As a fallback, it's nice to see. I just won't migrate my entire stack there. Job done ;)

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gdbjr 2 points 8 days ago

You are ignoring the fact that zerossl exists.

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dev_null 1 point 8 days ago

Ohh, looks nice too. The more the merrier, I have to read up on this one too.

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NanoooK 14 points 9 days ago

Cloudflare? No thanks.

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gressen 7 points 8 days ago

Ew

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reader 4 points 8 days ago

bad

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