It is the free, easy way to get an SSL cert (plus automated renewals). Without it, maybe HTTPS wouldn’t have been so omnipresent.
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zerozaku@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Can anyone fill me on this? Why is it so significant?
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 4 months ago
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 months ago
HTTPS used to be very expensive and out of reach for most smaller orgs. Let’s Encrypt brought easy mass adoption and changed encryption availability on the web for everyone.
dan@upvote.au 4 months ago
They also made it a open protocol, so now there’s a bunch of certificate providers that implement the same protocol and thus can work with the same client apps (Certbot, acme.sh, etc).