Let’s Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates

Let’s Encrypt said it will give users of its Transport Layer Security TLS certificates more time to replace 1 million certificates that are still active and potentially affected by a Certificate Authority Authorization CAA bug before it revokes them. The popular free certificate authority had giv...

Let's Encrypt Vulnerability

The BBC is reporting a vulnerability in the Let's Encrypt certificate service: In a notification email to its clients, the organisation said: "We recently discovered a bug in the Let's Encrypt certificate authority code. "Unfortunately, this means we need to revoke the certificates that were...

Let's Encrypt to Revoke Millions of TLS Certs

UPDATE Popular free certificate authority Let’s Encrypt said it will revoke 3 million Transport Layer Security TLS certificates Wednesday, because of a Certificate Authority Authorization CAA bug. The move could mean that millions of websites and machine identities that rely on those certificates...