Let’s encrypt

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2020
Let’s Encrypt CA is revoking over 3 Million TLS certificates due to a bug

Let’s Encrypt is going to revoke over 3 million certificates today due to a flaw in the software used to verify users and their domains before issuing a certificate. Let’s Encrypt certificate authority (CA) is going to revoke over 3 million certificates today due to a vulnerability in software used to verify users and their […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2016
WordPress pushes Free HTTPS Encryption for all its blogs

WordPress announces “HTTPS Everywhere, Encryption for All WordPress.com Sites,” millions websites will be secured without users’ effort. WordPress is pushing free default SSL for all the website running the popular CMS and hosted on WordPress.com, that means over 26% of websites based on the most popular CMSs on the web will be secured (Statistics by W3techs). […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2016
Let’s Encrypt has already issued one Million certificates

The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that the Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority issued its millionth certificate. The open Certificate Authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt seems to be a success, the EFF is reaching its goals with the creation of this new certificate authority run by Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). IT giants like Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, Automattic and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2015
Mozilla Fundation, a step toward to full HTTPS implementation

The Mozilla Foundation is starting the operations to phase the HTTP connections in the Firefox browser according to “encrypt the Web” movement. According to roadmap defined by the Mozilla Foundation, the organization has started the process to move toward full HTTPS enforcement in Firefox browser In November 2014 the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other firms, […]