Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...
Before you enter your credit card into an unknown website, you probably (hopefully) check your browser for the padlock icon that means your connection to that site uses HTTPS encryption, which helps ...
A project that aims to increase the use of encryption by giving away free SSL/TLS certificates has issued its first one, marking the start of its beta program. The project, called Let’s Encrypt, is ...
For all the attention that the iPhone’s encrypted storage and Whatsapp’s new end-to-end messaging encryption have gotten over the last few months---particularly from the US Justice Department---you'd ...
Encrypted websites are getting rewarded by Google with a little bit higher ranking in Internet searches, the search company says. That could be a huge boost to sites using the HTTPS encryption that ...