Ten years in, Let’s Encrypt has proven that critical internet infrastructure can be free, open, and sustained through community support rather than extraction. Here's to the next decade of that model, ...

Let’s Encrypt has been providing free “wildcard” certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.