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A nonprofit Certificate Authority providing TLS certs to 350M websites. 100% of our funding comes from donations.

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@letsencrypt
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6 years
Ladies, if he: - is insecure - can be easily manipulated - doesn't have a private key - uses port 80 He's not your man, he's plaintext
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On this day in 2015, we issued our first SSL/TLS certificate as a certificate authority. Since then, we have issued over 380M certificates! Thanks for your support as we continue to make the Web more secure.
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Naysayers: "Automation at a huge scale isn't probable..." Let's Encrypt, with a 16-person team:
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We just issued our 5 millionth certificate!
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Yesterday, for the first time, @Mozilla telemetry shows more than 50% of page loads were encrypted with HTTPS.
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66% of page loads are now HTTPS, rising 20% from 46% on January 1st of this year! Together, we can #SecureTheWeb
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Let's Encrypt is in Public Beta!
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We’ve now issued more than 10 million certificates.
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9 months
Putting the S in HTTPS since 2015.
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4 years
Let's Encrypt has issued *1 BILLION* TLS certificates! 🎉 #WeAreOneBillion
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6 years
Chrome will begin marking all HTTP pages as "not secure" this month with the release of Chrome 68. Get started with HTTPS free-of-charge from Let's Encrypt:
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. @GitHub Pages is now using Let's Encrypt certificates for their custom domains. We applaud this move forward to a more secure Web!
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Let's Encrypt has successfully issued over 1 million certificates in 1 day. We are excited to have the infrastructure to continue making the Web more secure in a big way, every day. via @firefox Telemetry
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8 years
Comodo Attempting to Register Let’s Encrypt Trademarks
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We're now managing over 10M active certificates!
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Let's Encrypt is trusted directly by @Mozilla @Firefox 50, released today! Our root, "ISRG Root X1", is included by default.
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Just passed 5 million active (unexpired) certificates.
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That amazing feeling when you look something up on @Wikipedia and there is your TLS cert, looking back at you. 😍
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6 years
Let's Encrypt 認証局は、「ワイルドカード証明書」と「ACME v2 プロトコル」への対応を完了しました。 これにより、あらゆる構成のウェブサイトにおいて SSL/TLS 証明書の取得・管理がより簡単になり、Web の世界における HTTPS 導入の障壁が軽減されます。
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Per @Firefox Telemetry, more than 60% HTTPS page loads is now the norm!
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Issued our 500,000th cert today.
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Issuing 3M certs every day means you get the best database servers you can. CPU: 2x AMD EPYC 7542; Total 64 cores / 128 threads - Memory: 2TB 3200MT/s - Storage: 24x 6.4TB Intel P4610; NVMe SSD; 3200/3200 MB/s read/write
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Let's Encrypt is now trusted by Java. JDK 8u101 is live and includes the IdenTrust root we use (DST Root CA X3).
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9 years
Just issued our 250,000th certificate!
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3 years
Total certs issued by Let's Encrypt as of yesterday? 1 billion 562 million 631 thousand 049 ...forty nine
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Let's Encrypt now serves 60M domains. Thanks for making the Web more secure through Let's Encrypt certificates!
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Happy Chrome 68 day! HTTP sites will now be marked as "not secure" in Chrome. We applaud the @googlechrome team as they make the Web more secure in a big way with this release.
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Today we'll likely issue 3 million certs. That's 125,000 per hour. 2,083 per minute. 35 👏 every 👏 second 👏
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Chrome will start labeling all plain HTTP sites as 'not secure' in July. Here's how to get started using HTTPS on your site with Let's Encrypt:
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Let's Encrypt, now serving 260,000,000 domains! 🎉
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9 years
Happy to announce that @GoogleChrome is a Platinum sponsor of Let's Encrypt!
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6 years
We are now encrypting over 100 million domains! Thank you to our great users, community, and sponsors who have helped us pass this milestone.
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10 years
Welcome to the new PKI: Free, open, and automatic. Let's encrypt the Web!
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11 months
Eight years ago today.
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We've issued our first certificate!
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日本の Web ユーザのページアクセスのうち 69% が HTTPS です。わずか 2 年前には 50% 未満でした。 これは 100% 暗号化されたウェブへのすばらしい進歩であり、時雨堂の @voluntas による Let's Encrypt! への継続的なスポンサーシップとサポートに感謝します
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3 years
Six years ago, encrypting the Web sounded impossible. Today we know that it's completely plausible with the help of our certificates and a strong community of supporters!
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5 years
💪🏽Encrypt the Web 💪🏽
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75% of Web pages loaded by @firefox use HTTPS! This is a huge milestone for the Web and we are happy to have contributed to it.
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"All websites should use HTTPS, even if they don't include private content, sign-in pages, or credit card details." via
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Thanks to the #CertBot team @EFF for implementing ACME v2 and making HTTPS adoption across the Web even easier.
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Chrome will start labeling all plain HTTP sites as 'not secure' in July. Here's how to get started using HTTPS on your site with Let's Encrypt:
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Let's Encrypt now provides HTTPS to over 150M domains! Find this and other news in our annual blog post about service growth, new features, infrastructure, and finances:
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Let's Encrypt can now sign ECDSA keys!
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Let's Encrypt root "ISRG Root X1" is included by default in Apple macOS 10.12.1 (available now).
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Let's Encrypt root is now trusted by all major root programs! More info at:
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7 years
Thank you to all of the Web hosting companies that implement Let's Encrypt. 100% HTTPS and a user privacy-respecting Web is in our future!
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. @RedHat is now a sponsor of Let's Encrypt!
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4 years
When you're issuing 1-2M certificates per day, you get the best database servers you can. CPU: 2x  @AMD EPYC 7542; Total 64 cores / 128 threads - Memory: 2TB 3200MT/s - Storage: 24x 6.4TB Intel P4610; NVMe SSD; 3200/3200 MB/s read/write
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NASA moved to HTTPS and used Let's Encrypt to make their services more secure. Read more at:
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. @voluntas と時雨堂がスポンサーを継続してくれていることに心から感謝します。  日本で HTTPS の採用が増え続けている中で皆さんのサポートをずっと得られているのは素晴らしいことです。
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Memory safety vulnerabilities are one of the biggest threats to Internet security. Our parent org is taking a big step in tackling this problem: we're working with @bagder , author of curl software, and @wolfssl to make critical parts of curl memory safe.
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1995: HTTPS introduced by Netscape. 2015: HTTPS used for 39% of web page loads globally. 2021: HTTPS used for 85% of web page loads. We've made progress, but we've got work to do. Support us with a donation to continue growing HTTPS on the Web!
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We did it… together! 100 *MILLION* active Let’s Encrypt certificates on the Web. Can you help us celebrate this milestone by donating $1 for every million active certs?
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We are coming up on 1 *BILLION* certificates issued by the Let's Encrypt certificate authority. Each certificate, free to get, and carrying out the mission of a more privacy-respecting Web. We are 1 billion, and we have just begun. Join us!
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3 years
Here's our servers providing 240 million websites with certs - check out how we upgraded them to be able to issue 200M certificates in 24 hours!
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This month, Google Chrome started warning users who add text to forms on HTTP sites. This will be a default warning soon.
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75% of Web pages loaded by @firefox use HTTPS!
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The percentage of Web pages loaded by Firefox using HTTPS has reached over 80% among U.S. users! We are thrilled to help secure the Web. (Stats via @firefox telemetry)
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RT if you were on a website today that uses a Let's Encrypt certificate.
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"Scaling certificate issuance is impossible." Let's Encrypt: 😎
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Today and every day we issue ~1,041.66 certs every minute. 💪
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Per @Firefox Telemetry, more than 50% HTTPS page loads is now the norm!
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Support for ACME protocol, used by Let's Encrypt, now in Apache httpd (dev version), the most-used Web server.
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Let's Encrypt and @EFF 's #Certbot makes deploying Let's Encrypt certificates on your website easier than ever. Get started today and secure your site with HTTPS:
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Our active certificates now cover more than 10M fully qualified domain names!
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