On Jan 11, 2019, at 8:39 AM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I tried to do my annual download of an SMIME certificate from Comodo, I
> saw that Comodo had changed its name [1] and now charges for its
> certificates. Any links to its pages from other articles redirect to pages
> which are all about buying antivirus or antispam software.
>
> Has anyone found a replacement?
How about
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.instantssl.com_ssl-2Dcertificate-2Dproducts_free-2Demail-2Dcertificate.html&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=JPXr2yDf8V0dpPTCbmh1Hfv7mODWD51Ac6mlGLT21ds&s=y9KF4dDqlIOesWBa4NOu4NLMnISPTW6RJJLpT7sqpdw&e=
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.instantssl.com_ssl-2Dcertificate-2Dproducts_free-2Demail-2Dcertificate.html&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=JPXr2yDf8V0dpPTCbmh1Hfv7mODWD51Ac6mlGLT21ds&s=y9KF4dDqlIOesWBa4NOu4NLMnISPTW6RJJLpT7sqpdw&e=>>?
I switched over to PGP/GPG instead of S/MIME. I think the free S/MIME certs are
going to get rarer and rarer the closer Let’s Encrypt gets to offering them.
The reason these free services are going away is because Let’s Encrypt has
sucked up a lot of the business from the companies selling SSL certs, so they
are trying to make it up elsewhere.
L^2
PS/ Besides, with GPG I can generate my own keys and they can be made to never
expire.
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