10 Years of Let's Encrypt

Aardwolf wrote: post #3

victorbjorklund wrote: post #2

Wow. Feels like Let’s encrypt been around for longer.

Agreed! What were we using before Let's Encrypt again? Maybe just plain HTTP

Self signed certs. I wasn't paying.

Re: 10 Years of Let's Encrypt

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Post by jjice » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 7:35 PM UTC

Let's Encrypt was _huge_ in making it's absurd to not have TLS and now we (I, at least) take it for granted because it's just the baseline for any website I build. Incredible, free service that helped make the web a more secure place. What a wonderful service - thank you to the entire team.

The CEO at my last company (2022) refused to use Let's Encrypt because "it looked cheap to customers". That is absurd to me because 1), it's (and was at the time) the largest certificate authority in the world, and 2) I've never seen someone care about who issued your cert on a sales call. It coming from GoDaddy is not a selling point...

So my question: has anyone actually commented to you in a negative way about using Let's Encrypt? I couldn't imagine, but curious on others' experiences.

Re: 10 Years of Let's Encrypt

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Post by Thaxll » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 7:35 PM UTC

bakies wrote: post #4

Aardwolf wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed! What were we using before Let's Encrypt again? Maybe just plain HTTP

Self signed certs. I wasn't paying.

Some of them were not expensive but it was not convenient at all.

Re: 10 Years of Let's Encrypt

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Post by rew0rk » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 7:36 PM UTC

Aardwolf wrote: post #3

victorbjorklund wrote: post #2

Wow. Feels like Let’s encrypt been around for longer.

Agreed! What were we using before Let's Encrypt again? Maybe just plain HTTP

either you used http, self signed if you did not mind the warning, and i remember there being one company that did offer free certificates that validated, but cant remember the name of it

Re: 10 Years of Let's Encrypt

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 7:36 PM UTC

Aardwolf wrote: post #3

victorbjorklund wrote: post #2

Wow. Feels like Let’s encrypt been around for longer.

Agreed! What were we using before Let's Encrypt again? Maybe just plain HTTP

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Re: 10 Years of Let's Encrypt

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Post by rokkamokka » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 7:37 PM UTC

jjice wrote: post #5

Let's Encrypt was _huge_ in making it's absurd to not have TLS and now we (I, at least) take it for granted because it's just the baseline for any website I build. Incredible, free service that helped make the web a more secure place. What a wonderful service - thank you to the entire team. The CEO at my last company (2022) refused to use Let's Encrypt because "it looked cheap to customers". That is absurd to me beca…

No! Let's encrypt is easily the best thing that's happened for a secure internet the last 10 years.

Re: 10 Years of Let's Encrypt

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Post by johnebgd » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 7:39 PM UTC

jjice wrote: post #5

Let's Encrypt was _huge_ in making it's absurd to not have TLS and now we (I, at least) take it for granted because it's just the baseline for any website I build. Incredible, free service that helped make the web a more secure place. What a wonderful service - thank you to the entire team. The CEO at my last company (2022) refused to use Let's Encrypt because "it looked cheap to customers". That is absurd to me beca…

There are extended certificates that did matter in our sales process for some hosted solutions back about 15 years ago if I recall right… no one has ever cared since…