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Tepix • today at 12:41 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

It's a shame that now, where S/MIME is a feature of pretty much every mail app, noone uses it outside of businesses. Opportunistic encryption between mail servers isn't good enough.

We really need a CA that does for mail what Let's encrypt has done for HTTP:

The CA needs to provider proper S/MIME certificates:

- free like Let's Encrypt

- duration of 1 year or longer and

- users generate their own keys


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nottorp • today at 1:19 PM

> duration of 1 year or longer

Let's Encrypt is bringing the duration of certs down not up. I believe their goal is 30 minutes validity.

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nazcan • today at 1:22 PM

Thoughts on why it hasn't been solved?

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