Dataproof Communications

Our first full year as a live CA was an exciting one. I’m incredibly proud of what our team and community accomplished during 2016. I’d like to share some thoughts about how we’ve changed, what we’ve accomplished, and what we’ve learned. At the start of 2016, Let’s Encrypt certificates had been available to the public for less than a month...

Today we kicked off our first crowdfunding campaign with the goal of raising enough funds to cover about one month of our operations - $200,000. That amount covers the operational and engineering staff, the hardware and the software, and general operating expenses needed to securely and reliably issue and manage many millions of certificates. We decided to run a crowdfunding...

We are proud to announce that The Ford Foundation has awarded us a grant to help our growing operations. The Ford Foundation is a major philanthropic entity both in the US and globally. One of its programmatic areas, Internet Freedom, is focused on creating a more open and inclusive Internet experience for all people. Our relationship with Ford was born...

We’re excited that Squarespace has decided to protect the millions of sites they host with HTTPS! While talking with their team we learned they were deploying OCSP Stapling from the get-go, and we were impressed. We asked them to share their experience with our readers in our first guest blog post (hopefully more to come). - Josh Aas, Executive Director, ISRG /...

Let’s Encrypt is pleased to introduce support for issuing certificates that contain Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). This means that our users around the world can now get free Let’s Encrypt certificates for domains containing characters outside of the ASCII set, which is built primarily for the English language. We’re excited about this feature because our goal is to serve the...

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The trust of our users is ISRG’s most critical asset. Transparency regarding legal requests is an important part of making sure our users can trust us, and to that end we will be publishing reports twice annually. Reports will be published three months after the period covered in order to allow us time to research all requests and orders...

Today we’d like to explain what it costs to run Let’s Encrypt. We’re doing this because we strive to be a transparent organization, we want people to have some context for their contributions to the project, and because it’s interesting. Let’s Encrypt will require about $2.9M USD to operate in 2017. We believe this is an incredible value for a...

The Let’s Encrypt root key (ISRG Root X1) will be trusted by default in Firefox 50, which is scheduled to ship in Q4 2016. Acceptance into the Mozilla root program is a major milestone as we aim to rely on our own root for trust and have greater independence as a certificate authority (CA). Public CAs need their certificates to...

Let’s Encrypt is happy to announce full support for IPv6. As IPv4 address space is exhausted, more and more people are deploying services that are only reachable via IPv6. Adding full support for IPv6 allows us to serve more people and organizations, which is important if we’re going to encrypt the entire Web. IPv6 is an exciting step forward which will...