Yes, having the support of a foundation helps, but more important is a solid technological solution to a recognized problem. Foundations have a hit-or-miss success rate in software, generally, and ...

Let's Encrypt has been providing free "wildcard" certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...

Let's Encrypt has announced it will no longer notify users about imminent certificate expirations via email due to high costs, privacy concerns, and unnecessary complexities. The decision to end the ...

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Sift today announced that it is the recommended certificate monitoring service for Let’s Encrypt, the world’s most widely used Certificate Authority (CA).

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

The non-profit that runs Let’s Encrypt has revealed the open certificate authority (CA) passed the three billion mark for certificates issued this autumn, making the internet a safer place in the ...

Make security technology easier to use, and invariably someone will use it for criminal purposes. The backers of the Let’s Encrypt project wanted to make it easier for website owners to obtain and ...

There are some interesting questions afoot, with the news that the Contec CMS8000 medical monitoring system has a backdoor. And this isn’t the normal debug port accidentally left in the firmware. The ...

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...

A sad loss: Peter Eckersley was only 43 years old, and he contributed to the creation of important technology ventures like certificate authority Let's Encrypt, Certbot, and HTTPS Everywhere. A ...