{"id":33364,"date":"2015-10-29T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33364"},"modified":"2015-10-27T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:09:40","slug":"free-https-certificates-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/29\/free-https-certificates-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Free HTTPS certificates coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Ars Technica<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2015\/10\/with-goal-of-universal-https-lets-encrypt-reaches-important-milestone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Goodin<\/a> discussed the imminent availability of free HTTPS certificates to all registered domain owners:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lets-encrypt.png\" alt=\"lets-encrypt\" width=\"484\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lets-encrypt.png 484w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lets-encrypt-150x129.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lets-encrypt-480x412.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A nonprofit effort aimed at encrypting the entire Web has reached an important milestone: its HTTPS certificates are now trusted by all major browsers.<\/p>\n<p>The service, which is backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, Cisco Systems, and Akamai, is known as <a href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Let&#8217;s Encrypt<\/a>. As <em>Ars<\/em> reported last year, the group will <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2014\/11\/nonprofit-effort-aims-to-encrypt-the-web\/\" target=\"_blank\">offer free HTTPS certificates to anyone who owns a domain name<\/a>. Let&#8217;s Encrypt promises to provide open source tools that automate processes for both applying for and receiving the credential and configuring a website to use it securely.<\/p>\n<p>HTTPS uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transport_Layer_Security\" target=\"_blank\">transport layer security<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secure_Sockets_Layer\" target=\"_blank\">secure sockets layer<\/a> protocols to secure websites in two important ways. First, it encrypts communications passing between visitors and the Web server so they can&#8217;t be read or modified by anyone who may be monitoring the connection. Second, in the case of bare bones certificates, it cryptographically proves that a server belongs to the same organization or person with control over the domain, rather than an imposter posing as that organization. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extended_Validation_Certificate\" target=\"_blank\">Extended validation<\/a> certificates go a step beyond by authenticating the identity of the organization or individual.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Ars Technica, Dan Goodin discussed the imminent availability of free HTTPS certificates to all registered domain owners: A nonprofit effort aimed at encrypting the entire Web has reached an important milestone: its HTTPS certificates are now trusted by all major browsers. The service, which is backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, Cisco Systems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[169,157,58,334],"class_list":["post-33364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-eff","tag-encryption","tag-internet","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8G8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33366,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33364\/revisions\/33366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}