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Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

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489 points gslin | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 06:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. jaas ◴[20 Nov 24 11:55 UTC] No.42193040[source]▶
We consider our ten year anniversary to be in 2025 but I appreciate the kind words here!

Today is roughly the ten year anniversary of when we publicly announced our intention to launch Let's Encrypt, but next year is the ten year anniversary of when Let's Encrypt actually issued its first certificate:

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/09/14/our-first-cert/

In December of 2015 (~9 years ago today) is was made available to everyone, no invitation needed:

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta/

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2. nadermx ◴[20 Nov 24 15:07 UTC] No.42194526[source]▶
It's actually serendipitous that it happened exactly on December 2015. That's when I had only enough for a domain, but not for a ssl, and my site needed an ssl. Thanks to let's encrypt free ssl, the project hit.