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> "What's in it for me"

I'll ignore he obvious selfish nature of this question and simply point out that you may need to take advantage of that "culture of always encrypting everything at some point in the future. It is incredibly short-sighted to assume that you're not ever going to be a target.

> "not having secrets"

You can look the numerous rebuttals for this very well-known fallacy.

> Cost.

It's probably worth mentioning that I am currently living on SSDI (social security disability income) thanks to some unfortunate medical issues. I cannot actually afford any PKI cert and related costs, even $20 costs.

Well, the EFF may soon have a free solution for this, and almost all of the benefits I list are still valid even when the crypto is relying on an self-signed certificate automagically generated by apache on first use.

I would love to see more options that address the cost issue - secure communications should not be limited to those that can afford various economic barriers, but for now at least some solution exists.




What's wrong with StartSSL for your use?


You assume they are always available and always do business with everybody? I had an account with them once, but they declined to reinstate it shutdown the account. I don't know why.

So no, they are not an option for everybody.




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