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Using Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates? You Need to Check Your Setup

Let’s Encrypt, the popular SSL certificate authority, is about to stop sending emails for expiring certificates. If you have a server using Let’s Encrypt, you’ll need to use automations to keep up ...
ZDNet

How Let's Encrypt made the internet safer and HTTPS standard - and free

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.
Wired

A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working | WIRED

Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy. But more quietly, a small ...
InfoWorld

Learning from Let’s Encrypt’s 10 years of success

Yes, having the support of a foundation helps, but more important is a solid technological solution to a recognized problem. Foundations have a hit-or-miss success rate in software, generally, and ...
Bleeping Computer

Let's Encrypts Now Offers Free Wildcard SSL Certificates Using ACMEv2

Let's Encrypt announced yesterday that their ACMEv2 API is now live and with it comes the ability for users to get free wildcard certificates. This has been a long awaited feature as wildcard domain ...
Threat Post

First Let’s Encrypt Free Certificate Goes Live

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 ...
GIGAZINE

Let's Encrypt announces the introduction of 'short-term certificates,' improving security and enabling issuance by IP address

The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), which operates Let's Encrypt, announced in its 2024 annual report that it would be able to issue certificates with a validity period of six days in 2025.