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My first thought when reading this title was “Let's Encrypt”. https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/22/https-progress-june-2016.html https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/2
by haasn 10y ago
My first thought when reading this title was “Let's Encrypt”. https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/22/https-progress-june-2016.html https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/22/https-progress-june-2016.... claims LE has issued 3.8 million live certificates covering 7 million unique domains.
Based on numbers alone, I'd say LE itself could entirely have caused increase this in adoption - but I assume I'd have to look at the certificate stats myself to confirm this. (Obviously, most of the “top sites” are not going to be using LE certificates - but 1 million websites is a lot of websites)
- jaas 10y agoIt's clearly not just Let's Encrypt doing this, though I think Let's Encrypt is contributing a lot in terms of both issuance and changing expectations. Let's Encrypt is up to almost 4.5M active certificates now, and I haven't checked recently but those certs probably cover 8.5-9M FQDNs.