Let’s Encrypt has protected more than 100 million websites

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Let’s Encrypt, a popular security certification authority announced that it has escorted more than 100 million websites and that number continues to grow. In the last month alone, the number of sites protected with HTTPS increased by 24 million.

Just last year, Let’s Encrypt announced that it has issued more than 100 million certificates. For a variety of reasons, hundreds of millions of tags do not mean that 100 million different websites use the encryption certificate of Let’s Encrypt. At the time, the number of sites protected by Let’s Encrypt could range from 17 million to 46 million. In a year, this number doubled, and Let’s Encrypt successfully brought HTTPS to sites that were not previously available.

A day ago, Google announced that starting with Chrome 68, the browser will officially fire at all unsecured HTTP sites.

When it comes to Let’s Encrypt and recent news, project leader and former Mozilla employee Josh Aas said:

“Expecting every website to enable HTTPS would have been unreasonable prior to the existence of Let’s Encrypt, which lowers financial, technical, and educational barriers to enabling HTTPS. Our focus on ease of use at scale has been a primary driver behind the incredible growth in HTTPS deployment in recent years.

Let’s Encrypt certificates cover over 113M websites today and we are on track to help secure more than 150M websites by the end of 2018. We expect Google Chrome’s new warnings to contribute significantly to that growth, as well as HTTPS growth on the Web in general.”

The growth of Let’s Encrypt is a good landmark for the industry. Because it helps protect people from hacking when they log in to the site, especially those that are mixed.

Via: Neowin

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