Security News > 2020 > March > Let’s Encrypt issues one billionth free certificate

Last week was a big one for non-profit digital certificate project Let's Encrypt - it issued its billionth certificate.

Publicly announced in November 2014, Let's Encrypt offers TLS certificates for free.

Let's Encrypt created a protocol called Automated Certificate Management Environment.

Eagle-eyed readers of today's other stories will spot that the certificate issued on the Stripe phishing scam domain was also from Let's Encrypt.

That's due in large part to free and automated certificate provisioning, but also to a firmer hand by web browser developers.

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