Let's Encrypt will change the web

Posted on Wednesday November 19, 2014
Categories: Web

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Update from the 6th of June 2021

The face of the Web changed in 2015. Developers and organizations from all horizons joined handsand started using this service right away. The adoption over the following weeks that more actors began relying on their services and making them a standard. With a simple and reliable API integrated to many existing solutions and even a CLI, the adoption has been immediate.

Thanks to this service, Web Browser vendors started changing the state of the Web and pushed for features reserved to secure-only connections like HTTP/2¹ and HTTP/3, many newer JavaScript APIs, etc. This also ended the reign of Extended Validation certificates as browsers phased out displaying the name of the certificate holder, which also contributed to simplifying the experience for Web users.

Clearly, this technology and the actors behind it revolutionized the Web. I am extremely thankful that they did. If you use their services too, please check out their website and donate or ask your company to join the sponsors.

Personally, I would love for this initiative to succeed and to advance the state of the platform. They have ambitious projects too: including Prio Services and making core Web components memory-safe.