Hi Lee, > On Jan 11, 2019, at 13:23, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/free-email-certificate.html>?
Alas, when I went to the above this year, there is a page-not-found error. So... it seems that what you said last year [1] was correct, so there is now only one place to get the keypair, and it comes with a caveat online. > I switched over to PGP/GPG instead of S/MIME. I poked around for a bit and found that everyone was talking about using GPGTools. They want $24 for their plugin for Mail (or allow compiling from source for free, as long as the user can go into source and find and strip the code for the payment). There were people who were using it without the plugin, but then it looked like a real hack. Do you have something you recommend which would make it (relatively) painless? Most of what I say, the NSA can read, and then sell to Google in a private-public partnership. Oh wait, is it the other way around? Bill [1] > 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. _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
