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[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago

I remember when absolutely no one used https and then in a matter of a couple years things got really fast. Now you can easily browse with https required and only occasionally find the odd website that doesn't use it (mostly some internet relic). That was such a great transition when it happened though.

[-] FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It felt like it happened practically overnight when Let's Encrypt released.

[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Let's Encrypt was a godsend. Getting a TLS certificate before sucked.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Yes. Thank these folks:

Mozilla employees Josh Aas and Eric Rescorla, together with Peter Eckersley at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and J. Alex Halderman at the University of Michigan. Internet Security Research Group, the company behind Let's Encrypt, was incorporated in May 2013.

They created the ACME standard, the open source community got on board, and soon enough everyone bought in, a massive step forward for Internet security and the benefit of open source.

[-] jazir5@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

So Firefox is basically the GOAT when it comes to internet security and privacy? They should team up with the signal guys.

[-] Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Google preferring https sites was the motivator I saw for client demands.

SEO scores feed into the PPC cost in AdWords so all of a sudden people were crying out for their sites to “have the padlock icon” because what’s 20 bucks for a cert when you’re spending thousands of dollars a month

[-] jazir5@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

And now it's free with stuff like Let's Encrypt.

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