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Let's Encrypt details changes to certificate issuance, including new certificate chains, removal of Client Authentication EKU, and shorter certificate validity periods.

Let's Encrypt has announced details of its overall policy regarding certificates issued going forward, including 'certificate chain renewal,' 'removal of TLS client authentication EKU (Enhanced Key ...
ZDNet

Securing the Internet: Let's Encrypt to release first security certificates September 7

Let's Encrypt is scheduled to releases its first security certificates on September 7, 2015. The service will become generally available on November 16. Josh Aas, the Internet Security Research ...
Threat Post

Let’s Encrypt Gears Up to Replace 200M Certificates a Day

The open CA prepares for ‘worst scenarios’ with new fiber, servers, cryptographic signing and more. Let’s Encrypt just announced an infrastructure makeover which means the open certificate authority ...
ZDNet

Let's Encrypt issues one-billionth web security certificate

Without these TLS certificates, it's trivial to steal your login and password over Wi-Fi. The only way to have reliable security is for every website to use encrypted connections. One reason that hadn ...
Neowin

Let's Encrypt to revoke certain certificates on March 4

Let’s Encrypt has announced that it will have to revoke many Let’s Encrypt TLS/SSL certificates from March 4. It’s currently in the process of emailing affected subscribers so that they can update ...
Bleeping Computer

14,766 Let's Encrypt SSL Certificates Issued to PayPal Phishing Sites

During the past year, Let's Encrypt has issued a total of 15,270 SSL certificates that contained the word "PayPal" in the domain name or the certificate identity. Of these, approximately 14,766 (96.7% ...
Hackaday

Let’s Encrypt Will Stop Working For Older Android Devices

Let’s Encrypt was founded in 2012, going public in 2014, with the aim to improve security on the web. The goal was to be achieved by providing free, automated access to SSL and TLS certificates that ...
TechCrunch

Let’s Encrypt issues 3 billion HTTPS certificates

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...
Ars Technica

Let’s Encrypt takes free “wildcard” certificates live

In July of 2017, the nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt promised to deliver something that would put secure websites and Web applications within reach of any Internet user: free “wildcard” ...
Bleeping Computer

Let's Encrypt is revoking lots of SSL certificates in two days

Let's Encrypt will begin revoking certain SSL/TLS certificates issued within the last 90 days due to a bug, starting January 28, 2022. The move could impact millions of active Let's Encrypt ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Let’s Encrypt Revoking Millions of SSL Certificates

Let’s Encrypt announced that a bug affecting over 3 million websites using their Let’s Encrypt security certificate. Let’s Encrypt is revoking over 3 million affected certificates on March 4, 2020.