Technology

Let’s Encrypt

►https://letsencrypt.org
►https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the Internet Security Research Group (#ISRG). ISRG is a California public benefit corporation, and is recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The objective of Let’s Encrypt and the ACME protocol is to make it possible to set up an #HTTPS server and have it automatically obtain a browser-trusted #certificate, without any human intervention. This is accomplished by running a certificate management agent on the web server.

#automated_service #EFF #ISRG

#EFF plans a certificate authority to make #HTTP encryption ubiquitous - say goodbye to the self-signed certificate warning !
▻https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web #web #cryptography

Technical details : ►https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology - joyfully simple, though HTTP servers will have to implement the protocol.