Let’s Encrypt was founded in 2012, going public in 2014, with the aim to improve security on the web. The goal was to be achieved by providing free, automated access to SSL and TLS certificates that ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

Let's Encrypt is planning some changes: Certificates with a term of six days will be added. Certificate expiry messages will be dropped. The Let's Encrypt project wants to remove support for ...

The non-profit that runs Let’s Encrypt has revealed the open certificate authority (CA) passed the three billion mark for certificates issued this autumn, making the internet a safer place in the ...

The open CA prepares for ‘worst scenarios’ with new fiber, servers, cryptographic signing and more. Let’s Encrypt just announced an infrastructure makeover which means the open certificate authority ...

The Let's Encrypt project issued the first IP certificate last week. It first wants to gain experience with it before general availability follows later in the year. Let's Encrypt announced this in an ...

Back in November, Let's Encrypt warned that older Android phones stuck running 7.1.1 Nougat or lower won’t be able to visit large portions of the secure web by September 2021. Now, the nonprofit ...

Things were touch-and-go for a while, but it looks like Let's Encrypt's transition to a standalone certificate authority (CA) isn't going to break a ton of old Android phones. This was a serious ...