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Let's Encrypt Authority X1 and Let's Encrypt Authority X2 Receive Cross-Signatures

posted by janrinok on Tuesday October 20 2015, @11:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the its-safe-to-say dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Let's encrypt, the free SSL CA has achieved a significant milestone. From their press release:

We're pleased to announce that we've received cross-signatures from IdenTrust, which means that our certificates are now trusted by all major browsers. This is a significant milestone since it means that visitors to websites using Let's Encrypt certificates can enjoy a secure browsing experience with no special configuration required. Both Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates, Let's Encrypt Authority X1 and Let's Encrypt Authority X2, received cross-signatures. Web servers will need to be configured to serve the appropriate cross-signature certificate as part of the trust chain. The Let's Encrypt client will handle this automatically.

You can see an example of a server using a Let's Encrypt certificate under a new cross-signed intermedate here.

Vital personal and business information is flowing over the Internet more frequently than ever, and it's time to encrypt all of it. That's why we created Let's Encrypt, and we're excited to be one big step closer to bringing secure connections to every corner of the Web.

This is hopefully a good step in the direction of an encrypted web!

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Wednesday October 21 2015, @12:43AM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday October 21 2015, @12:43AM (#252543) Journal

    Wait, you knew your were over 10 updates behind and you STILL posted that failure report?!!?

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  • (Score: 2) by ese002 on Wednesday October 21 2015, @12:53AM

    by ese002 (5306) on Wednesday October 21 2015, @12:53AM (#252546)

    The last update was March 31st, 2015. hardly a long time ago.

    Who actually counts updates? I don't even do that on my Gentoo box which I actually own and administer, unlike this one which I don't.

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday October 21 2015, @01:19AM

      by frojack (1554) on Wednesday October 21 2015, @01:19AM (#252554) Journal

      I don't count them either, I was just going by the version numbers, but they aren't always sequential.
      But there have been a steady drumbeat of updates since March 31, and in browser years, that IS INDEED a long time ago.

      Lets Encrypt is a new-ish project, first certificate july 25 2015.

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  • (Score: 1) by KiloByte on Wednesday October 21 2015, @02:28AM

    by KiloByte (375) on Wednesday October 21 2015, @02:28AM (#252571)

    He's on an ESR release. Not everyone uses unstable snapshots.

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