Am 27.2. wurde die eine Milliarde SSL Zertifikate von Let’sEncrypt überschritten. Bei 46 Millionen Webseiten für die Zertifikate ausgestellt wurden, war das ja auch nur eine Frage der Zeit, wenn man 4 Zerts pro Jahr pro Domain durchbringen muß 🙂

Herzlichen Glückwunsch – Let’s Encrypt 😀

„We issued our billionth certificate on February 27, 2020. We’re going to use this big round number as an opportunity to reflect on what has changed for us, and for the Internet, leading up to this event. In particular, we want to talk about what has happened since the last time we talked about a big round number of certificates – one hundred million. One thing that’s different now is that the Web is much more encrypted than it was. In June of 2017 approximately 58% of page loads used HTTPS globally, 64% in the United States. Today 81% of page loads use HTTPS globally, and we’re at 91% in the United States! This is an incredible achievement. That’s a lot more privacy and security for everybody. Another thing that’s different is that our organization has grown a bit, but not by much! In June of 2017 we were serving approximately 46M websites, and we did so with 11 full time staff and an annual budget of $2.61M. Today we serve nearly 192M websites with 13 full time staff and an annual budget of approximately $3.35M. This means we’re serving more than 4x the websites with only two additional staff and a 28% increase in budget. The additional staff and budget did more than just improve our ability to scale though – we’ve made improvements across the board to provide even more secure and reliable service.“

Das selbstgesteckte Ziel haben Sie jedenfalls erreicht, das ist mal sicher. Ob das Netz wirklich sicherer geworden ist, ist eine andere Frage 😀