Open-Source Let’s Encrypt Issues First Certificate, Web Closer to Being Fully Encrypted, EFF Says
Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, open-source certificate authority sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, issued its first-ever certificate Monday, EFF Activism Director Rainey Reitman wrote in a blog post. Let’s Encrypt makes HTTPS implementation a “seamless, no-cost option for anyone…
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with a domain” and puts “security in the hands of website owners,” Reitman said. EFF has worked on Let’s Encrypt for several years, Reitman said. The issuance of the first certificate marks the beginning of rolling out the service to the broader public, she said. The certificate isn't cross-signed currently so “visiting the page over HTTPS will give you an ‘untrusted’ warning unless you install the ISRG root [certificate authority] in your trust store,” Reitman said. Once the certificate is cross-signed by IdenTrust’s root in about a month, the trusted connection should work on nearly all browsers, Reitman said.