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Let's Encrypt announces the introduction of 'short-term certificates,' improving security and enabling issuance by IP address

The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), which operates Let's Encrypt, announced in its 2024 annual report that it would be able to issue certificates with a validity period of six days in 2025.
ZDNet

How Let's Encrypt made the internet safer and HTTPS standard - and free

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.
Ars Technica

Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices

Things were touch-and-go for a while, but it looks like Let’s Encrypt’s transition to a standalone certificate authority (CA) isn’t going to break a ton of old Android phones. This was a serious ...
Ars Technica

Let’s Encrypt is ending expiration notice emails—for some very good reasons

Let’s Encrypt has been providing free “wildcard” certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...