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Let's Encrypt Is Now Officially Trusted by All Major Root Certificates (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the marching-forward dept.

Let's Encrypt has announced that it is now directly trusted by all major root certificates including those from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, Oracle, and Blackberry. With this announcement, Let's Encrypt is now directly trusted by all major browsers and operating systems. From a report: While Let's Encrypt has already been trusted by almost all browsers, it was done so through intermediate certificate that were cross-signed by IdenTrust. As IdenTrust was directly trusted by all major browser vendors and operating systems, it also allowed Let's Encrypt to be trusted as well. With Let's Encrypt now being directly trusted, if there is ever a problem with IdenTrust and they themselves become untrusted, Let's Encrypt users will still be able to function properly.

2 of 92 comments (clear)

  1. What by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Trusted by root certificates? That is not how root certificates work. Bad article and bad headline for a tech site

  2. Re:Gee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Automate.

    Certs updates should be automated anyhow, can't count how many times I've seen corporate sites have certs expire because some one couldn't or didn't update the cert because it was a manual process...