Gemini Capsules Still Outsourcing to Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Now Measured at Less Than 10 (or Less Than 0.3%)
The supposed appeal of Certificate Authorities (CAs) that are centralised will be gone as soon as people realise who or what controls those CAs. Tell people Cheeto and MElon interfere with CISA and people will begin to "get a clue". This isn't about security but all about control. That "cabal" or "cartel" of "trust" is only as trustworthy as its "master", the controller.
Let's Encrypt is no better than the rest of them, except many people believe that it is "free".
In Geminispace, Let's Encrypt is not commonly used and today, for the first time, Lupa sees fewer than 10 capsules still using Let's Encrypt. To quote Lupa statistics: "2774 (92.4 %) capsules are self-signed, 9 (0.3 %) use the Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt, 220 (7.3 %) are signed by another CA (may be not a trusted one)."
Here it is at 9:
The number of capsules is, in general, going up, unlike Let's Encrypt. Yesterday 3,004 active capsules were indexed (almost a week ago 3,000 was exceeded) and there's a lot of activity. Yesterday we served 178,796 requests in the Techrights capsule and 88,141 in the Tux Machines capsule. Many of those were bots, but it is cheaper to entertain unwanted bots in Gemini than it is on the Web. █
