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, a certificate authority (CA) that issues free SSL/TLS certificates for web servers, will celebrate its 10th anniversary since launching in beta in 2025. To commemorate this, an article ...

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.