Campaign to encrypt all the web chalks up another success
15 Sep 2015 at 23:02, Alexander J Martin
Let's Encrypt, a free automated open-source certificate authority (CA), has signed its first certificate – leading the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to celebrate "an important milestone in our march to encrypt all of the Web."
Announced in 2014, the companies behind Let's Encrypt intended to encourage the world's movement away from a plaintext web to one which is healthily wrapped in encryption.
The pitch for the CA claims it is "built on a foundation of cooperation and openness, that lets everyone be up and running with basic server certificates for their domains through a simple one-click process."
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