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Happy birthday to Let’s Encrypt !
Huge thanks to everyone involved in making HTTPS available to everyone for free !
Woo! That reminds me, I need to throw some money at them.
If i recall correctly, they opened up their offer to the general public in 2015.
The Wikipedia page says the following :
On January 28, 2015, the ACME protocol was officially submitted to the IETF for standardization.[28] On April 9, 2015, the ISRG and the Linux Foundation declared their collaboration.[9] The root and intermediate certificates were generated in the beginning of June.[29] On June 16, 2015, the final launch schedule for the service was announced, with the first certificate expected to be issued sometime in the week of July 27, 2015, followed by a limited issuance period to test security and scalability. General availability of the service was originally planned to begin sometime in the week of September 14, 2015.[30] On August 7, 2015, the launch schedule was amended to provide more time for ensuring system security and stability, with the first certificate to be issued in the week of September 7, 2015 followed by general availability in the week of November 16, 2015.[31]
So we’ll have another anniversary to celebrate in nearly a year
I’m so thankful for what Let’s Encrypt did for the internet.10 or 15 years ago it was as easy as installing an app to steal credentials from all other users on the local lan.
Certificates were expensive and complicated, and not many used them.