Free encryption project 'Let's Encrypt' to issue first digital certificates next month
Found on The Stack on Wednesday, 17 June 2015
The project is funded by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a new Californian public-benefit group backed by leading tech firms including Mozilla, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Cisco.
Website operators are generally hesitant to use SSL/TLS certificates due to their cost. An extended validation (EV) SSL certificates can cost up to $1,000 (approx. £640). It is also a complication for operators to set up encryption for larger web services.
EV certs however also provide insurance. That aside, free and easy SSL is good and will help to weed out the self signed certificates which are still used by some services.