Subj : https://letsencrypt.org
To   : All
From : warmfuzzy
Date : Tue May 22 2018 06:45:00

Are you looking to secure a simple web service thats not needing industrial
strength encryption and authentication?  Well this service produces certs
that are recognized as being valid, and it uses AES-128 for its private key
(symmetric cipher) with TLS, so its not super-elite but it will do the job. 
The site is Let's Encrypt found at https://letsencrypt.org.  Its a service
that offers free web certificates for secure computing.  I'm not sure of all
the specifics to this service but it is sponsored by the EFF (The Electronic
Frontier Foundation) so its got my vote.

The site states:
"Let's Encrypt is a global Certificate Authority (CA). We let people and
organizations around the world obtain, renew, and manage SSL/TLS
certificates.  Our certificates can be used by websites to enable secure
HTTPS connections."

"Let's Encrypt offers Domain Validation (DV) certificates. We do not offer
Organization Validation (OV) or Extended Validation (EV) primarily because we
cannot automate issuance for thoe types of certificates."

* wildcard certs are also available.

Props to Pequito for bringing this to my attention.

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