When we look back at 2015, we will remember this as the year we launched our most ambitious technology project to date. EFF, Mozilla, and our partners gave the world the
Let's Encrypt certificate authority. Certificates
became available to the public on December 3.
Let's Encrypt makes getting a digital certificate for an Internet site fast, free, and easy, so sites can easily enable HTTPS encryption (and some other encrypted protocols). We think this is a vital step in getting Web connections routinely encrypted, by reducing the cost and difficulty of getting a certificate that browsers require when making secure connections.
