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Hey friends,

So I've brought you something awesome this time for all those with websites etc.

A free certificate authority which will be trusted by Mozilla and other big organizations allowing websites to be secure!

https://letsencrypt.org/

It will only be live summer 2015, but still very cool!

Iiiinteresting. Will keep an eye on it.

Yeah, finally they reached that conclusion that it might be better if there was a free organization that gives SSL certs without the need to pay hundreds of dollars a year to keep an SSL encryption

Continuing about SSL, Google has announced that once Let's encrypt shall start, Chrome will notify you each time your connection is not using SSL instead of notifying when it is.

-- 17 Jun 2015 11:28 --

they finally announced it shall be arriving September 2015

-- 26 Aug 2015 13:25 --

According to linuxtoday.com it shall launch on the 7th of September

-- 15 Sep 2015 23:44 --

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/08/07/upda ... edule.html

General availability 16th of November

-- 25 Nov 2015 19:18 --

I'm happy to let you all know that letsencrypt is in open beta, I have a certificate for some of my domain, you can view it on my guild's website https://embrace.ws

-- 10 Mar 2016 16:28 --

http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/lets-e ... icate.html

-- 17 Aug 2016 09:06 --

Letsencrypt has been open and completely free for anyone to use.
No need to sign up, just follow their instructions or ask me for help if you cant manage.

Using linux is much easier for getting and renewing certificates, there is a program for windows as well but not on letsencrypt, on github.

Before you retrieve certificates there are a couple of things you should know:
1. Its based on ips and you have up to 5 requests for certificates per month, so do multidomain + subdomain certificates when you start.
2. Apache or whatever engine you are using for http access to your server needs to be off to receive certificates

Enjoy!