In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

Let’s Encrypt, the popular SSL certificate authority, is about to stop sending emails for expiring certificates. If you have a server using Let’s Encrypt, you’ll need to use automations to keep up ...

Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone today when its first free and automated cert went live. Let’s Encrypt, a movement to issue free and automated HTTPS certificates, today hit a major milestone when ...

Yes, having the support of a foundation helps, but more important is a solid technological solution to a recognized problem. Foundations have a hit-or-miss success rate in software, generally, and ...

Everyone's pro-encryption these days, unless they're part of the surveillance state. But cryptography is hard, and good cryptography tends to be both hard and expensive. As a result, only a small ...

Let's Encrypt announced yesterday that their ACMEv2 API is now live and with it comes the ability for users to get free wildcard certificates. This has been a long awaited feature as wildcard domain ...