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David Roessli
Personal blog · davidroessli.com/logswebhardware
David Roessli writes david.roess.li, a personal blog at davidroessli.com about web and hardware. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers encrypted email and S/MIME certificates, including free certificate providers shutting down and a remaining provider's unsafe private key practices. One commenter cites it as a source.
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Hello, my name is David Roessli. I am a freelance web designer and developer based in Geneva, Switzerland.
What Hacker News says?
There were several free SMIME certificate providers, who would issue you a personal certificate verifying that you control a given email address. Most have shutdown their free products in the past few years, I suspect as a result of having to invest money in their decades-old web applications that no longer function correctly in modern browsers. One remains, but this blog post warns that they practice unsafe private…
Comment linking /logs/2019/09/free-smime-certificates-in-2019/
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