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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.
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 ...
ZDNet

Will Let's Encrypt threaten commercial certificate authorities?

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 ...
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 ...
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.