https everywhere update - dlang.org gets an "A" now!

Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Dec 3 19:40:53 PST 2015


On 12/3/2015 6:55 PM, David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Friday, 4 December 2015 at 02:29:52 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> I'm glad that letsencrypt is out there doing the publicity, but
>> getting and using ssl certs has been free via startssl for several
>> years now.  What this new group is doing is the PR and marketing to
>> get people to do it, of course under their own umbrella rather than
>> another company's.
>
> The free StartSSL thing was also nigh-unusable – when I gave it a try,
> their in-browser CSR gen thing broke on whatever recent version of
> Firefox I was using, which left me with no cert, but them claiming I had
> exhausted their offer. They also have this weird thing where they offer
> "one host name plus domain" only, and charge users for revoking their
> cert (!).
>
>   — David

Interesting.. I've never had any problems, though I've never needed to 
revoke a cert.


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