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TLDR: Look at the IdenTrust numbers if you want to know the real Let's Encrypt numbers. Not many people use Let's Encrypt's own root for their validation chain
by jaas 10y ago
TLDR: Look at the IdenTrust numbers if you want to know the real Let's Encrypt numbers.
Not many people use Let's Encrypt's own root for their validation chain when they use Let's Encrypt certificates. The Let's Encrypt root is not propagated widely enough across clients.
We (Let's Encrypt) have a cross-signature from IdenTrust, that's what most people use because it's widely trusted. IdenTrust issuance is otherwise very small, so you can effectively consider the IdenTrust numbers in charts like this to be a proxy for Let's Encrypt.
-Josh from Let's Encrypt
- schoen 10y agoW³Techs also understates the fraction of "web sites" that use LE certs because it counts only the 10,000,000 top sites. But LE alone has current valid issuance covering over 30,000,000 subject names, most of which are small sites not in the top 10,000,000 sites by traffic volume or search engine ranking. https://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/technologies https://letsencrypt.org/stats/ https://letsencrypt.org/stats/