#EFF plans a certificate authority to make #HTTP encryption ubiquitous - say goodbye to the self-signed certificate warning !
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web #web #cryptography
Technical details : ►https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology - joyfully simple, though HTTP servers will have to implement the protocol.
Not clear how the miracle software will change Apache configuration automatically...
About the #ACME protocol it uses:
Protocol:
▻https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec
Demo Implementations:
▻https://github.com/letsencrypt/node-acme
▻https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview
IETF mailing list for working on the protocol ▻https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/acme
