[LINK] Free digital certificates

Stephen Loosley stephenloosley at zoho.com
Sun Dec 6 13:40:43 AEDT 2015


Let's Encrypt provides free SSL/TLS certificates in an effort to better secure the Internet



Let's Encrypt Proect Entering Public Beta

Dec 3, 2015 by Josh Aas, ISRG Executive Director
https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html


We’re happy to announce that Let’s Encrypt has entered Public Beta. 

Invitations are no longer needed in order to get free certificates from Let’s Encrypt.

It’s time for the Web to take a big step forward in terms of security and privacy. We want to see HTTPS become the default. Let’s Encrypt was built to enable that by making it as easy as possible to get and manage certificates.

We’d like to thank everyone who participated in the Limited Beta. Let’s Encrypt issued over 26,000 certificates during the Limited Beta period. This allowed us to gain valuable insight into how our systems perform, and to be confident about moving to Public Beta.

We’d also like to thank all of our sponsors for their support. We’re happy to have announced earlier today that Facebook is our newest Gold sponsor.

We have more work to do before we’re comfortable dropping the beta label entirely, particularly on the client experience. Automation is a cornerstone of our strategy, and we need to make sure that the client works smoothly and reliably on a wide range of platforms. We’ll be monitoring feedback from users closely, and making improvements as quickly as possible.

Instructions for getting a certificate with the Let’s Encrypt client can be found here.

https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt
https://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Let’s Encrypt Community Support is an invaluable resource for our community, we strongly recommend making use of the site if you have any questions about Let’s Encrypt.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/

Let’s Encrypt depends on support from a wide variety of individuals and organizations. Please consider getting involved, and if your company or organization would like to sponsor Let’s Encrypt please email us at sponsor at letsencrypt.org.

    

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). ISRG is a California public benefit corporation, and is recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt organization via the Internal Revenue Code.

Cheers,
Stephen





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