Reaching toward universal TLS SNI

The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in client support for TLS SNI a technology standard that makes HTTPS much more scaleable. While early 2014 saw fewer than 85% of HTTPS requests being sent by clients supporting TLS SNI, many Akamai customers today now see client TLS SNI usage...

HTTPS Hits 50 Percent Traffic Milestone

This week HTTPS hit another big milestone. According to a two-week survey of telemetry data from the Mozilla Firefox browser, 50 percent of page loads used HTTPS. “For the first time, the running average crested the 50 percent HTTPS page load mark,” said Sarah Gran, director of communications for...

Buggy Domain Validation Forces GoDaddy to Revoke Certs

GoDaddy has revoked, and begun the process of re-issuing, new SSL certificates for more than 6,000 customers after a bug was discovered in the registrar’s domain validation process. The bug was introduced July 29 and impacted fewer than two percent of the certificates GoDaddy issued from that dat...

Let's Encrypt Celebrates Big HTTPS Milestone

Certificate authority Let’s Encrypt is celebrating a major milestone in the young nonprofit’s existence issuing its 5 millionth certificate this month. Let’s Encrypt launched to the general public just seven months ago. “Our goal is to get the entire web 100 percent HTTPS,” said Josh Aas, executi...

Third-party service side of the drain: Let's Encrypt leaked 7 6 1 8 name User email address-bug warning-the black bar safety net

! Let's Encrypt translated into Chinese called“let's encrypt”, in fact, this is one for the majority of the site free-issued SSL/TLS certificates of the project. Let's Encrypt the backing is not small, at the moment it is by the Linux Foundation managed to initiate the project of organizations...

Let's Encrypt Accidentally Spills 7,600 User Emails

Certificate authority Let’s Encrypt accidentally disclosed the email addresses of several thousand of its users this weekend. Josh Aas, Executive Director for the Internet Security Research Group ISRG, the nonprofit group that helped launch the CA, apologized for the error on Saturday. In what...

WordPress Free Encryption Through Let's Encrypt Project

All custom domains hosted on WordPress.com will soon have their sites automatically encrypted for free. WordPress said late Friday afternoon that more than one million sites will have encryption automatically deployed. “We are closing the door to unencrypted web traffic at every opportunity,” wro...

WordPress enables Free HTTPS Encryption for all Blogs with Custom Domain

Do you own a custom domain or a blog under the wordpress.com domain name? If yes, then there is good news for you. WordPress is bringing free HTTPS to every blog and website that belongs to them in an effort to make the Web more secure. WordPress – free, open source and the most popular a content...

More than 1 Million Websites Install Free SSL Certificate (and Counting...)

Let's Encrypt has achieved another big milestone by issuing 1 million free Transport Layer Security TLS SSL Certificates to webmasters who wish to secure the communications between their users and domains. Let's Encrypt – operated by the Internet Security Research Group ISRG – is an absolutely...

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Amazon Certificate Manager Brings Free SSL Certs to AWS Users

Amazon is getting into the certificate game. The company announced late last week that it launched a certificate manager to expedite the process of securing SSL/TLS certificates for customers looking to add HTTPS to their sites or apps. The move comes less than a year after Amazon applied to...

Hackers Install Free SSL Certs from Let's Encrypt On Malicious Web Sites

Who else didn't see this coming? It was so obvious as I stressed earlier that the Let's Encrypt free HTTPS certificates would not just help legitimate website operators to encrypt its users' traffic, but also help criminals to bother innocent users with malware through secure sites. Let's Encrypt...

Let's Encrypt Initiative Enters Public Beta

The Let’s Encrypt initiative reached yet another milestone this week when it entered public beta, something it claims should help make it easier for website owners to embrace HTTPS encryption. The latest step comes on the heels of the movement issuing its first certificate back in September and...

How to Install Let's Encrypt Free SSL Certificate On Your Website

Another Big Milestone – Let's Encrypt is now offering Free HTTPS certificates to everyone. Let's Encrypt has opened to the public, allowing anyone to obtain Free SSL/TLS Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security certificates for their web servers and to set up HTTPS websites in a few simple...

Let's Encrypt Free SSL/TLS Certificate Now Trusted by Major Web Browsers

Yes, Let's Encrypt is now one step closer to its goal of offering Free HTTPS certificates to everyone. Let's Encrypt – the free, automated, and open certificate authority CA – has announced that its Free HTTPS certificates are Now Trusted and Supported by All Major Browsers. Let's Encrypt enables...

Let's Encrypt Free HTTPS Secures Cross-Signatures To Be A CA

The continued march toward encrypting every online connection hit a noteworthy milestone last night when Let’s Encrypt announced that it was officially a Certificate Authority. Let’s Encrypt is an open source movement to make HTTPS implementations simple and free of cost for domain owners. A mont...

Let's Encrypt Project issues its First Free SSL/TLS Certificate

Last fall the non-profit foundation EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation launched an initiative called Let's Encrypt that aimed at providing Free Digital Cryptographic Certificates TLS to any website that needs them. Today, Let's Encrypt – a free automated Open-source Certificate Authority CA – has...

Let's Encrypt Issues First Cert

Let’s Encrypt, a movement to issue free and automated HTTPS certificates, today hit a major milestone when its first cert went live. The desire to encrypt web-based services has accelerated projects such as Let’s Encrypt, which was announced last November, and promised by the close of this summer...

Free Encryption Project to issue First SSL/TLS Certificates Next Month

Let's Encrypt, a project aimed to provide free-of-charge and easier-to-implement way to obtain and use a digital cryptographic certificates SSL/TLS to secure HTTPS website, is looking forward to issue its first digital certificates next month. With Let's Encrypt, any webmaster interested in...

Chrome Plans to Mark All 'HTTP' Traffic as Insecure from 2015

Google is ready to give New Year gift to the Internet users, who are concerned about their privacy and security. The Chromium Project's security team has marked all HTTP web pages as insecure and is planning to explicitly and actively inform users that HTTP connections provide no data security...