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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: 3, Informative) by Virindi on Wednesday March 07 2018, @02:46AM
Just because a flaw was not publicly disclosed yet does not mean old techniques were "secure" in a cryptographic sense. They were always insecure; we just didn't know it yet.
And of course, some shadowy organizations may have known long before we did in each case.