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

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: 5, Informative) by vux984 on Wednesday October 21 2015, @12:56AM

    by vux984 (5045) on Wednesday October 21 2015, @12:56AM (#252547)

    Firefox 31.6 ESR

    1) Firefox 31.0 ESR was released July 22 2014. The ESRs are maintained for about one year. The 31 ESR life cycle has ended and isn't being updated anymore; and you should have been migrated to the 38 ESR by now.
    2) Firefox 31.6 ESR isn't even up to date *within* the 31 ESR cycle. The last release of Firefox 31 was 31.8

    The firefox 38 ESR was released a while ago (we're already on 38.3, and the ESR overlap with the 31 ESR series has ended.
    Worse, the final release of 31 ESR was 31.8 (July 2, 2015); and you are on 31.6. (March 31, 2015)

    So... you are running an out of date version of a discontinued ESR release.

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

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday October 21 2015, @01:21AM (#252555) Journal

    For regular releases (not ESR) the current is 41.0.2, updated mere moments ago.

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