While I was on my trip to the UK, I thought it would be cool if I could could connect to my home webserver using ssl rather than using a vpn to get free encryption. So I asked my self, are there free ssl certificates available. Turns out one person is doing that. A company called startssl appears to offer free ssl certificates. And they appear to be the only ones doing it. I then wondered to my self, why do ssl certificates cost money. So it turns out it has to deal with verifying your identity or getting their root ca into browsers or something. Well this company I guess works but the lovely people at Cisco, Mozilla, and the EFF were all like SSL certificates should seriously be free and they started Let's Encrypt. Honestly this is probably the best thing since JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5 became a thing and liberated us from silverlight and flash. They havent started issuing certificates and they don't even have their Root certificate in major browsers yet, but I have hope. In the next month or so, they will be signing certificates for people who made it in to the closed beta. I hope I make it into the beta. It would really be useful for the company I work for called WholesomeZine.