Without these TLS certificates, it's trivial to steal your login and password over Wi-Fi. The only way to have reliable security is for every website to use encrypted connections. One reason that hadn ...

Everyone's pro-encryption these days, unless they're part of the surveillance state. But cryptography is hard, and good cryptography tends to be both hard and expensive. As a result, only a small ...

Dozens of websites and services reported issues late last month thanks to the expiration of a root certificate provided by Let's Encrypt, one of the largest providers of HTTPS certificates. Let's ...

On December 3, 2025, local time, Let's Encrypt, which issues free TLS certificates to websites, announced that it will shorten the validity period of the certificates it issues from 90 days. The ...

Most websites don't display that little lock icon in the URL line. But in a world festering with cyberthreats and online fraud, they probably should. Let's Encrypt, a nonprofit Certificate Authority ...

Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone today when its first free and automated cert went live. Let’s Encrypt, a movement to issue free and automated HTTPS certificates, today hit a major milestone when ...