Comment by kaoD

11 years ago

Perhaps you should understand a system before slandering it? As others have said, encryption without authentication is useless.

Running a CA has an associated cost, including maintenance, security, etc. That's what you pay for when you acquire a certificate. Whether current market prices' markup is too high would be a different question, but paying for a certificate is definitely not spending 200$ to look cool.

CAs are the best known way (at the moment) to authenticate through insecure channels (before anyone brings pìnned certs or WoT, read this comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8616766)

EDIT: You can downvote all you want but I'm still right. Excuse my tone, but slandering a system without an intimate understanding of the "how"s and the "why"s (i.e. spreading FUD) hurts everyone in the long run.

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jsmthrowaway  11 years ago

That's the third comment of yours in which I've seen you taunt downvoters via edits in this thread alone. That's why I'm downvoting you. Knock it off, please.

  • kaoD  11 years ago

    I'm sorry it came across as a taunt, I didn't mean it like that.

    Downvote sprees without an explanation detract from healthy discussion since they basically mean "I'm so mad about how wrong you are that I don't even care about why you think you are right".

    I guess I'll just ignore them...