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How can cloud engineers optimize resource costs using Elastic Observability and Tines? Follow this step-by-step guide to learn how to integrate Elastic Observability with Tines to detect and remediate high CPU usage in AWS EC2 instances. - Read more

On Thursday, June 6th, 2024, we will be switching issuance to use our new intermediate certificates. Simultaneously, we are removing the DST Root CA X3 cross-sign from our API, aligning with our strategy to shorten the Let’s Encrypt chain of trust. We will begin issuing ECDSA end-entity certificates from a default chain that just contains a single ECDSA intermediate,...

27 new CVEs, and continued IoT targeting. See what's new from February 2024. - Read more

On Wednesday, March 13, 2024, Let’s Encrypt generated 10 new Intermediate CA Key Pairs, and issued 15 new Intermediate CA Certificates containing the new public keys. These new intermediate certificates provide smaller and more efficient certificate chains to Let’s Encrypt Subscribers, enhancing the overall online experience in terms of speed, security, and accessibility. First, a bit of history. In September,...

Let’s Encrypt is proud to introduce Sunlight, a new implementation of a Certificate Transparency log that we built from the ground up with modern Web PKI opportunities and constraints in mind. In partnership with Filippo Valsorda, who led the design and implementation, we incorporated feedback from the broader transparency logging community, including the Chrome and TrustFabric teams at...

Before joining Elastic, Khalil Corbin worked in the public sector, doing non-profit work with kids on probation — and writing for music blogs on the side. At Elastic, he found an opportunity to write — and grow his career. - Read more

This letter was originally published in our 2023 Annual Report. We typically open our annual report with a letter from our Executive Director and co-founder, Josh Aas, but he’s on parental leave so I’ll be filling in. I’ve run the Brand & Donor Development team at ISRG since 2016, so I’ve had the pleasure of watching our work mature,...

For more than ten years, we at the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) have been focused on our mission of building a more secure and privacy-respecting Internet for everyone, everywhere. As we touch on in our 2023 Annual Report, we now serve more than 360 million domains with free TLS certificates. Beyond being a big number, what does that...

Workplace Search functionality will merge with Elastic Search in the future. Here’s what you need to know. - Read more

According to Cloudflare’s Merkle Town, 257,036 certificates are issued every hour. We at Let’s Encrypt are issuing close to 70% of those certs. Being a Certificate Authority that operates as a nonprofit for the public’s benefit means we are constantly considering how we can improve our Subscribers’ experience and security. One simple innovation to do just that is by...