Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
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Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
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Re: Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
#2So, Let's Encrypt became 4-th in the world by amount of certs? Am i right?
Re: Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
#3Wow. Public beta for 2.5 months and already 700,000 certificates issued, more than a third of the largest competitor's number, about 10% of the entire secure Web.
There certainly seems to have been pent-up demand.
Re: Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
#4tldr: Let's Encrypt is achieving its original mission: help people use TLS on domains that were previously insecure, and make the internet a safer place.
> In the first quarter of its' operation then, Let's Encrypt has far and away been used more to secure previously-unsecured (or at least untrusted) websites than simply as a cost-savings measure.
Re: Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
#5I've used them a bunch. We host a lot of internal-facing utilities that are low-profile, but occasionally hosting sensitive data. In the past I couldn't convince managers to spend money on certs even if the cost of someone stumbling on these sites could be very high and certs are cheap. Now I don't even have to ask.
Re: Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
#6I tried Let's Encrypt for the first time a week or two ago and was really impressed. This is the way to do it. Well done!
Re: Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
#7I've used them a bunch. We host a lot of internal-facing utilities that are low-profile, but occasionally hosting sensitive data. In the past I couldn't convince managers to spend money on certs even if the cost of someone stumbling on these sites could be very high and certs are cheap. Now I don't even have to ask.
Keep in mind that Let's Encrypt publishes a searchable list of all domains issued.
Re: Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
#8I've used them a bunch. We host a lot of internal-facing utilities that are low-profile, but occasionally hosting sensitive data. In the past I couldn't convince managers to spend money on certs even if the cost of someone stumbling on these sites could be very high and certs are cheap. Now I don't even have to ask.
Yep - this is something we plan to do as well, SSLize all the dev servers just because we can and then they better reflect live.
Re: Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
#9Does anyone know where one can get a free wildcard certificate? Need it for development and foo/bar/baz/biff.example.com change names regularly (they include the hash of the code commit) so I would like to get a *.dev.example.com wildcard cert. (one that won't give warnings that scare the business types who are testing the code, and won't understand what self-signed means.)
Re: Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
#10Does anyone know where one can get a free wildcard certificate? Need it for development and foo/bar/baz/biff.example.com change names regularly (they include the hash of the code commit) so I would like to get a *.dev.example.com wildcard cert. (one that won't give warnings that scare the business types who are testing the code, and won't understand what self-signed means.)
Amazon Cetrificate Manager seems to do this, but it's only available in one region right now.