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Let’s Encrypt has issued more than 5 million certificates in total since we launched to the general public on December 3, 2015. Approximately 3.8 million of tho
by Abundnce10 10y ago
Let’s Encrypt has issued more than 5 million certificates in total since we launched to the general public on December 3, 2015. Approximately 3.8 million of those are active, meaning unexpired and unrevoked. Our active certificates cover more than 7 million unique domains.
How can you cover 7 million unique domains if you've only issued 5 million certificates?
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- waterphone 10y agoOne certificate can be for more than one domain.
- altano 10y agoFor example, a single cert can serve www.example.com as well as example.com
- gummiruessel 10y agoThat is true, but in this case I think Let's Encrypt and also parent to your comment mean different domains as in e.g. one certificate to cover all three of example.com, example.net and example.org.
- 5ilv3r 10y agoThe same mechanism in cert generation provides that functionality. Hostnames are hostnames. SAN certs just take a list of them.
- schoen 10y agoA certificate can cover many domains thanks to the subjectAltName extension.