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Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust
When Let’s Encrypt first launched, we needed to ensure that our certificates were widely trusted. To that end, we arranged to have our intermediate certificates cross-signed by IdenTrust’s DST Root CA X3. This meant that all certificates issued by those intermediates would be trusted, even while our own ISRG Root X1…
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Security & PrivacyInfrastructure & DevOps2023
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2023 | Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust by healsdata | 544 | 283 |
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