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by schoen 9y ago
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> And because 85 percent of those sites never had HTTPS before, it's already significantly boosted the total fraction of sites that are encrypted on the web as a whole. Based on numbers Mozilla gathers from Firefox users, encrypted sites now account for more than 42 percent of page visits, compared with 38.5 percent just before Let's Encrypt launched. And Aas says that number is still growing at close to one percent a month.
(I work on Let's Encrypt.)
- CydeWeys 9y agoYou're a vital part of something my team is working on. Thanks for all your work. Context: https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/broadening-hsts-to-secure-more-of-web.html https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/broadening-hsts-to-s...
- chias 9y agoLet's Encrypt has been of enormous service to me. It's not just about saving money -- it's about changing my perspective and expectations to "encrypted by default". Thank you so much.
- berbec 9y agoThis is something that is going to save a company I work for thousands annually. Extended Validation certificates for dozens of domains and subdomains. Now we just plug certbot into crontab and forget about it, forever! Thank you for all the work you do. It is a great service you have given the world at large.
- schoen 9y agoBy the way, the Let's Encrypt certificates are Domain Validation (DV) certificates rather than EV. Hope that's still OK for your application!
- berbec 9y agoWe don't do any sort of major ecommerce and I have never drank the EV Kool-aid. It's the same encryption either way, just EV has an extra CA "stamp of approval". Considering how much I trust your average CA[1], i.e. not at all[2]... 1: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2623829/authentication/weaknesses-in-ssl-certification-exposed-by-comodo-security-breach.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/2623829/authentication/wea... 2: https://www.pcworld.com/article/249242/verisign_hacked_what_we_dont_know_might_hurt_us.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/249242/verisign_hacked_what_...
- giobox 9y agoYou can still donate! Indeed I would encourage any commercial enterprise that makes savings this way to contribute something back at least.
- schoen 9y agoThanks for the suggestion -- people can donate to support Let's Encrypt at https://letsencrypt.org/donate/ https://letsencrypt.org/donate/.
- 0xfeba 9y agoThanks for your work.