Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018
Serious question.  What does LetsEncrypt buy me that I could not get from having a knob in applications and browsers that lets me accept self signed certs?<p>To be clear, the reason I am asking is that historically a CA was intended to be a way to validate "who" you are talking to.  LetsEncrypt is providing a signed cert that does not validate an entity.  It just solves the self signed cert, which could also be solved in applications by having a setting to "Accept Self Signed Certs".  Some apps and appliances already have this.