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In this short article Let’s Encrypt lists challenges ahead, like service growth, new features and infrastructure and finances.
Let’s Encrypt had a great year in 2017. We more than doubled the number of active (unexpired) certificates we service to 46 million, we just about tripled the number of unique domains we service to 61 million, and we did it all while maintaining a stellar security and compliance track record. Most importantly though, the Web went from 46% encrypted page loads to 67% according to statistics from Mozilla - a gain of 21 percentage points in a single year - incredible. We’re proud to have contributed to that, and we’d like to thank all of the other people and organizations who also worked hard to create a more secure and privacy-respecting Web.
I think Let's Encrypt is a great service. Want to share your war story? Can you think of any downsides or threats related to all this?
[Ed note: SoylentNews uses Gandi for "soylentnews.org" and uses LetsEncrypt for all other domains and subdomains. --martyb]
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 07 2018, @01:19AM
Get with the times, old man. You know what King Google V says, "mobile first, not IMMOBILE first." HTTPS is the future, otherwise how would the gate keepers of security make any money off certificates? Think about it. I'd be more than happy to do my duty for my community, and help out the elderly installing Firefox Quantum. Or in your case, authcert.c to whatever assembly file you first started using in the 80s. Hell, as long as you sign off on my community service papers -- so I can use the internet legally -- I'll even throw in a TLS zeroday so you don't need to mess with your home-rolled DOS MaxThink parser. Cerf knows how unstable the inode must be all these decades.