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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation along with Mozilla and Cisco launched an initiative called "Let's Encrypt" that promised to hand out free certificates anyone can use. Today, the team has ...

In July of 2017, the nonprofit certificate authority Let's Encrypt promised to deliver something that would put secure websites and Web applications within reach of any Internet user: free "wildcard" ...