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 ...

On Wednesday millions of Transport Layer Security certificates will be revoked because of a Certificate Authority Authorization bug. Popular free certificate authority Let’s Encrypt said it will ...

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 ...

Last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation along with Mozilla and Cisco launched an initiative called "Let's Encrypt" that promised to hand out free certificates anyone can use. Today, the team has ...

Let's Encrypt will revoke over 3 million certificates on Wednesday, March 4th, due to a bug in their domain validation and issuance software. A bug in Let's Encrypt's certificate authority (CA) ...

Let's Encrypt announced yesterday that they are now directly trusted by all major root certificate programs including those from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, Oracle, and Blackberry. With this ...