I know that I can simply make my own private certificate authority that only I and my family trust. But is there some public provider like letsencrypt that is in a free-er part of the world than the US?

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    833·
    1 day ago

    Simi-related fun fact.

    The biggest contributor to TOR is the CIA. They funded it’s creation and are primarily responsible for maintaining it to this day.

    The CIA maintains TOR as a way for spies to pass information over the internet. They make it public because if only spies used TOR it would be trivial to catch them. So it’s in their interest that it be public and secure. It’s open source and security experts agree you can trust it.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      34·
      5 hours ago

      So since this, according yo you, is a fact, I do suppose you have evidence to this claim? And I’m talking evidence that can be corroborated, not a Facebook post or something from a conspiracy sub, and not “oh man, everybody knows this!” because everybody doesn’t know this.

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
      42·
      1 day ago

      The CIA, not navy intelligence?

      The core principle of Tor, known as onion routing, was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, to protect American intelligence communications online.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)