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Gemini Now 70 Capsules Short of 4,000 and Let's Encrypt Sinks Below 100 (Capsules) as Self-Signed Leaps to 91%

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 25, 2024

Cute Squirrel Portrait

The "gopher with encryption" protocol is getting more widely used and more independent from GAFAM

Some minutes ago (yes, minutes, not hours) we've finally reached that long-awaited Lupa milestone:

2528 (90.7 %) capsules are self-signed, 98 (3.5 %) use the Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt, 161 (5.8 %) are signed by another CA (may be not a trusted one).

One can see the historic trends in this graph (PNG over Gemini). In 2022 Let's Encrypt was measured at almost 15% of the whole, not it's just 3.5% and fast declining.

People who pursue real security and actual autonomy can value and appreciate the trend, as in a Google-dominated Web we'll never get there. Web browsers only become more and more stubborn over time. As Sompi put it moments ago in IRC: "it doesn't seem to be enough that the user trusts the certificate, instead the certificate must be trusted by big tech companies".

He had also said: "Mozilla and Google are pushing the though that everything must be "trusted", as in having a certificate that is trusted by them".

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