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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

The Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority has issued its millionth certificate [eff.org]:

At 9:04am GMT today, the Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority issued its millionth certificate [letsencrypt.org]. This is an amazing success, coming only 3 months and 5 days since a beta version of the service became publicly available. We're very excited to be building a more secure and fully encrypted future for the World Wide Web.

A million certificates is in itself pretty good progress. But a single certificate can cover multiple domain names [wikipedia.org], and the million certificates Let's Encrypt has issued are actually valid for 2.5 million fully-qualified domain names [wikipedia.org], over 90% of which had never been reachable by browser-valid HTTPS before.

[...] EFF co-founded the Let's Encrypt CA with Mozilla and researchers from the University of Michigan. Akamai and Cisco provided significant financial support for the launch, and many other organizations [letsencrypt.org] have stepped up to sponsor the project [letsencrypt.org] since launch. If you'd like to help, you can donate to EFF [eff.org] or ISRG [letsencrypt.org], or if you're a coder, help us to improve the server [github.com] or client software [github.com].

Also at Tom's Hardware [tomshardware.com].

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