On December 3, 2025, local time, Let's Encrypt, which issues free TLS certificates to websites, announced that it will shorten the validity period of the certificates it issues from 90 days. The ...

Without these TLS certificates, it's trivial to steal your login and password over Wi-Fi. The only way to have reliable security is for every website to use encrypted connections. One reason that hadn ...

The open CA prepares for ‘worst scenarios’ with new fiber, servers, cryptographic signing and more. Let’s Encrypt just announced an infrastructure makeover which means the open certificate authority ...

Let's Encrypt, the free, automated, and open certificate authority, has passed another milestone. As of September 11th, the certificate authority has issued 10 million certificates, 5.3 million of ...

Let’s Encrypt was founded in 2012, going public in 2014, with the aim to improve security on the web. The goal was to be achieved by providing free, automated access to SSL and TLS certificates that ...