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.
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:
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
We've issued over 10k wildcard certificates in the first 48 hours of wildcard and ACMEv2 availability. More about wildcards and ACMEv2 can be found here:
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
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.
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!
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:
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.
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!
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?
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!
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)
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: