Since December, Let’s Encrypt Project Has Issued Over 1 Million [...]

Since December, Let’s Encrypt Project Has Issued Over 1 Million Certificates

📅 March 16, 2016 - The Let's Encrypt free encryption project rolled out in December and has issues more than 1 million certificates since. They are now moving their clients to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which will include a new name not announced just yet.

The public beta, automated, free and open certificate authority was launched by Internet Security Research Group and now protects 2.4 million domains. The program is set up to make it easy for website owners to use HTTPS, which will be an incentive soon from both Firefox and Chrome deciding to mark HTTP as insecure.
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