Chrome security engineers declared that unencrypted websites will not run in the browser and will be marked as insecure beginning in December 2015. This proposal will dramatically change the security ...

In July of 2017, the nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt promised to deliver something that would put secure websites and Web applications within reach of any Internet user: free “wildcard” ...

There is a lot of information on the Internet, but at the same time, information such as “what you saw” and “what you purchased” on the Internet may be leaked via the network. To prevent this, it is ...

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 has been providing free “wildcard” certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...

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 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 ...

Let’s Encrypt has announced that its billionth certificate was issued today. By automating the issuance of website certificates, Let’s Encrypt hoped to increase the number of HTTPS-compatible websites ...