Let’s Encrypt – anew Certificate Authority, which is free, open, and automated – announced that it’s leaving beta. Just look at how many SSL certificates they’ve issued, and at what rate!
I’ve first written about Let’s Encrypt back in November 2014. It hasn’t been that long ago, but boy, what a journey!
Electronic Frontier Foundation reports some excellent news:
Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP to HTTPS.
More specifically:
With a launch scheduled for summer 2015, the Let’s Encrypt CA will automatically issue and manage free certificates for any website that needs them. Switching a webserver from HTTP to HTTPS with this CA will be as easy as issuing one command, or clicking one button.