Let's Encrypt Falls to a New Low of Only 0.6% of Gemini Capsules Known to Lupa
THE Linux Foundation's Certificate Authority, Let's Encrypt, keeps falling lower and lower in Lupa's statistics and earlier today Lupa said that only 18 known capsules still use Let's Encrypt. A day ago it said 19. It had said that for about a week already.
Why is this important?
In Gemini Protocol, certificates for encryption are required, but centralised Certificate Authorities (CAs) aren't needed albeit they are not actively (or explicitly) discouraged either. Having said that, more capsules reject that broken (pseudo-security) model and many move away from Let's Encrypt. Its "market share" fell about 20-fold in just 2 years.
In the long run, this alternative to the Web and "modern" Web browsers (which increasingly just block access to anything not signed by a centralised Certificate Authority) will be without the same flaws. Unless you insist on visiting those few capsules that still use Let's Encrypt or something similar (and even then, client warnings, if any, can be bypassed/suppressed). █