EFF: Let's Encrypt
EFF: Let's Encrypt
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is helping to launch a new
non-profit organization that will offer free server certificates
beginning in summer 2015. "Let's
Encrypt is a new free certificate authority, which will
begin issuing server certificates in 2015. Server
certificates are the anchor for any website that wants to
offer HTTPS and encrypted traffic, proving that the server
you are talking to is the server you intended to talk to.
But these certificates have historically been expensive, as
well as tricky to install and bothersome to update. The
Let's Encrypt authority will offer server certificates at
zero cost, supported by sophisticated new security
protocols. The certificates will have automatic enrollment
and renewal, and there will be publicly available records
of all certificate issuance and revocation.
" Let's Encrypt will be
overseen by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a California
public benefit corporation.