Let's Encrypt Celebrates 10 Years as World's Largest Certificate Authority
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SGran
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
Let's Encrypt celebrates its 10th anniversary as the world's largest certificate authority, having issued billions of SSL/TLS certificates since its first publicly-trusted certificate went live on September 14, 2015. The organization revolutionized web security by creating the ACME protocol for automated certificate issuance, making HTTPS encryption accessible to everyone. Today, Let's Encrypt is approaching the milestone of protecting one billion websites and has become essential infrastructure for system administrators worldwide.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledOn September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live.
Today, Let's Encrypt is the largest certificate authority in the world in terms of certificates issued.
The ACME protocol we helped create and standardize is integrated throughout the server ecosystem.
We've become a household name among system administrators.
We're closing in on protecting one billion web sites.
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