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?

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    The certificate is only used for authentication. The actual data is encrypted with a temporary symmetric key that is generated via a diffie-hellman exchange

    Even if they had your private key they still wouldn’t be able to decrypt the data