By Richard Adhikari
11/24/14 11:33 AM PT
Let's Encrypt is an ambitious plan to convert the Internet to HTTPS, a protocol that uses encryption to secure websites. Internet-wide encryption is necessary, because otherwise "all of our browsing is vulnerable to account hijacking, surveillance by companies and governments, hackers on the network, content modification, malware injection and targeted censorship," said the EFF's Peter Eckersley.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation last week announced plans to launch a nonprofit organization -- Let's Encrypt -- in an effort to secure the entire Web.
Let's Encrypt, starting in summer 2015, will offer free server certificates to help websites transition from HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol.
EFF is partnering with Akamai, Mozilla, Cisco, iDenTrust and University of Michigan researchers.
full article
Login to the community
No account yet? Create an account
Enter your username or e-mail address. We'll send you an e-mail with instructions to reset your password.