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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?

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Crazy that you’re downvoted for asking for sources lol

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 day ago

There's a thing called search engines, it takes about 20 seconds, much less than waiting for a reply you asked for in a mocking tone. What about "security analysis tor protocol"?

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thougnt it was the Navy, not CIA itself

[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah it was the NRL in Annapolis, Maryland

[–] plyth@feddit.org 47 points 2 days 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)

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Lost Lemmings?