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.
Hackaday

Let’s Encrypt Will Stop Working For Older Android Devices

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 ...

Post-Quantum without bloated handshakes: Let's Encrypt's new path

Instead of large Post-Quantum signatures, Merkle Tree Certificates are to make the Web PKI quantum-secure. Tests begin end of ...
Ars Technica

Let’s Encrypt is ending expiration notice emails—for some very good reasons

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 ...
Threat Post

Let’s Encrypt Gears Up to Replace 200M Certificates a Day

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 ...
CRN

Let's Encrypt, A Free And Automated Certificate Authority, Comes Out Of Stealth Mode

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 ...
ZDNet

Let's Encrypt issues one-billionth web security certificate

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 ...
TechCrunch

Let’s Encrypt issues 3 billion HTTPS certificates

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Medical Backdoors, Strings, And Changes At Let’s Encrypt

There are some interesting questions afoot, with the news that the Contec CMS8000 medical monitoring system has a backdoor. And this isn’t the normal debug port accidentally left in the firmware. The ...
GIGAZINE

Let's Encrypt announces that cross-signing will be abolished, while the amount of data in the certificate is reduced by 40%, Android 7.0 and earlier terminals require support

Let's Encrypt, a certificate authority that issues free SSL/TLS certificates for web servers, was cross-signed by IdenTrust so that it could issue certificates trusted by devices that didn't trust ...
Neowin

Let's Encrypt being abused, gets used in malvertising attacks says Trend Micro

Trend Micro has detected a malvertising campaign against web users in Japan. It turns out that the ads were using a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt. The ads led to sites which would infect PCs.