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posted by chromas on Wednesday September 19 2018, @12:50PM   Printer-friendly
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The free-to-use nonprofit was founded in 2014 in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is backed by Akamai, Google, Facebook, Mozilla and more. Three years ago Friday, it issued its first certificate.

Since then, the numbers have exploded. To date, more than 380 million certificates have been issued on 129 million unique domains. That also makes it the largest certificate issuer in the world, by far.

Now, 75 percent of all Firefox traffic is HTTPS, according to public Firefox data — in part thanks to Let's Encrypt. That's a massive increase from when it was founded, where only 38 percent of website page loads were served over an HTTPS encrypted connection.

"Change at that speed and scale is incredible," a spokesperson told TechCrunch. "Let's Encrypt isn't solely responsible for this change, but we certainly catalyzed it."

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/14/three-years-later-lets-encrypt-now-secures-75-of-the-web/

Previously: "Let's Encrypt" Has Issued 1 Million Certificates
Let's Encrypt Issues 100 Millionth Certificate
Let's Encrypt is Now Officially Trusted by All Major Root Programs


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by theluggage on Wednesday September 19 2018, @09:25PM

    by theluggage (1797) on Wednesday September 19 2018, @09:25PM (#737235)

    I'm guessing that people would notice that their PhoneOMatics are the only things having this issue and would advise others not to buy that device.

    Fortunately, the tech industry never spawns near-monopolies who can use their market dominance to extinguish smaller competitors and foist inferior products on the masses of customers - who mostly wouldn't give a fuck as long as their PhoneOMatics work with Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Oh, wait...

    ...and Google would be finished if people found they suddenly couldn't access Soylent News from Chrome.

    Apple weren't even in a dominant position when they released an iPhone that couldn't run Flash (SPOILER: Flash lost - good riddance, maybe, but it still lost) - what could they do now that they're a $1-trillion monster who can persuade their customers to pay $1200 for a phone with no headphone jack or SD slot?

    Everybody seems to agree that Facebook is evil, but somehow they're still here.

    Windows 10 serves adverts on the start menu and likes to reboot to install updates 10 minutes into your big presentation. Again, still here.

    Yesterday, Tim Cook broke into my house, killed my pet rabbit and left it boiling on the stove... I'd dump my Mac in protest except I already ripped all of my CD library into iTunes and I've got all of these USB sticks in HFS format. The stew wasn't bad, either.

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