Security News > 2020 > April > One billion certificates later, Let's Encrypt's crazy dream to secure the web is coming true
Today, in part due to the work Let's Encrypt does, roughly 85% of all websites use HTTPS and over one billion certificates have been issued.
What about money? Aas may have wanted to give away certificates for free, but building the Let's Encrypt apparatus was anything but free.
According to Aas, "We wouldn't be where we are today without." This includes those who help manage community forums, those who contribute to building the Let's Encrypt website, as well as those who write the hundreds of client software options for using Let's Encrypt.
As Aas noted, "There is a huge diversity of software deployment stacks out there and we don't have the resources to make sure Let's Encrypt integrates well with all of them. We rely on our community and they do an amazing job-there's a client for almost every software stack! This is what makes Let's Encrypt so easy for everyone to use."
From the start, Aas argued, "People want to do the right thing and secure their sites with HTTPS, [but] needed it to be easier to do." Let's Encrypt filled that void by offering a secure, reliable service that can issue millions of certificates per day without issue.