https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article146/letsencrypt-opportunity-other-cas en a blog about Debian and self-hosting Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:10:00 +0000 PluXml https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article146/letsencrypt-opportunity-other-cas/#c1460743826-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article146/letsencrypt-opportunity-other-cas/#c1460743826-1 In the short term, I think that commercial CAs will be mostly unaffected due to the short duration of LE certificates. In the long run a lot of software will probably handle them automatically, but for now you have to put together an automation solution for it and it's easier (and potentially less time) to just pay <X> to a commercial CA for a N year certificate. There's also an existing commercial CA that offers free DV certificates, and they don't seem to have killed the businesses of the other CAs. This isn't quite the same setup as LE because LE has automated issuing (which is much nicer than wrestling with a CA's terrible website), but it does suggest that many certificate buyers are not that price sensitive. Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:10:00 +0000 Chris Siebenmann https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article146/letsencrypt-opportunity-other-cas/#c1460732395-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article146/letsencrypt-opportunity-other-cas/#c1460732395-1 @Martin: Apparently, they do not plan to, but they do not exclude that possibility either. I wonder what you could be doing that requires that, but anyway, this is a perfect example of a service a commercial CA could provide using the ACME protocol! Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:59:00 +0000 Tanguy https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article146/letsencrypt-opportunity-other-cas/#c1460731506-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article146/letsencrypt-opportunity-other-cas/#c1460731506-1 I desperately need wildcard certificates for one of my sites. I hope that LE will support them at some point. Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:45:00 +0000 Martin