Yahoo

Will Let's Encrypt threaten commercial certificate authorities?

Everyone's pro-encryption these days, unless they're part of the surveillance state. But cryptography is hard, and good cryptography tends to be both hard and expensive. As a result, only a small ...
ZDNet

Let's Encrypt issues one-billionth web security certificate

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 ...
eWeek

Let’s Encrypt Free Certificates’ Success Challenges SSL/TLS Industry

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone on March 8 by ...
BizTech Magazine

How Can Public and Private Key Encryption Protect Private Data?

Public and private key cryptography is a powerful solution. The former (asymmetric cryptography) involves a pair of keys that ...
Bleeping Computer

14,766 Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates Issued to PayPal Phishing Sites

During the past year, Let's Encrypt has issued a total of 15,270 SSL certificates that contained the word "PayPal" in the domain name or the certificate identity. Of these, approximately 14,766 (96.7% ...
Threat Post

Let’s Encrypt to Revoke Millions of TLS Certs

On Wednesday millions of Transport Layer Security certificates will be revoked because of a Certificate Authority Authorization bug. Popular free certificate authority Let’s Encrypt said it will ...
Threat Post

First Let’s Encrypt Free Certificate Goes Live

Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone today when its first free and automated cert went live. Let’s Encrypt, a movement to issue free and automated HTTPS certificates, today hit a major milestone when ...
ZDNet

Securing the Internet: Let's Encrypt to release first security certificates September 7

Let's Encrypt is scheduled to releases its first security certificates on September 7, 2015. The service will become generally available on November 16. Josh Aas, the Internet Security Research ...
Hackaday

Let’s Encrypt Will Stop Working For Older Android Devices

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 ...
PC World

Let’s Encrypt free digital certificate project opens doors for public beta

Let’s Encrypt, the project offering free digital certificates for websites, is now issuing them more broadly with the launch of a public beta on Thursday. The beta label will eventually be dropped as ...
TechCrunch

Let’s Encrypt issues 3 billion HTTPS certificates

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 ...