<story><title>Our First Certificate Is Now Live</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2015/09/14/our-first-cert.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is a tiny bit odd. So they have issued their first certificate, but they don&amp;#x27;t have cross-signing in place yet? So between now and november 16th they&amp;#x27;ll be issuing a whole bunch of effectively broken certificates unless people manually install their root CA?&lt;p&gt;Why even push this today if you don&amp;#x27;t have cross-signing available? Without that Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt is effectively broken out of the box.&lt;p&gt;PS - I actually like Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt and the work they&amp;#x27;re doing. I will be all queued up when they go live to grab one (and, yes, will put my money where my mouth is and donate). But doing this today without cross-signing seems strange.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshmoz</author><text>We need to demonstrate proper issuance under our root and gain confidence in our live systems before getting cross-signed. Issuing without a cross-signature for a bit is how we do this.</text></comment>
<story><title>Our First Certificate Is Now Live</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2015/09/14/our-first-cert.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>This is a tiny bit odd. So they have issued their first certificate, but they don&amp;#x27;t have cross-signing in place yet? So between now and november 16th they&amp;#x27;ll be issuing a whole bunch of effectively broken certificates unless people manually install their root CA?&lt;p&gt;Why even push this today if you don&amp;#x27;t have cross-signing available? Without that Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt is effectively broken out of the box.&lt;p&gt;PS - I actually like Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt and the work they&amp;#x27;re doing. I will be all queued up when they go live to grab one (and, yes, will put my money where my mouth is and donate). But doing this today without cross-signing seems strange.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Baby steps. This is a huge step forward, and I&amp;#x27;m willing to cut them some slack considering they&amp;#x27;re about to shake up an entire industry.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Kudos everyone working on Let&amp;#x27;s Encrypt. You&amp;#x27;re doing awesome work.</text></comment>