For example, around 15,000 certificates have been issued to phishing sites containing ‘PayPal’ as a term.
Malware distributors have already taken advantage of this.
It doesn’t mean you can use it safely.Īs a further concern, little protection preventing distributors of malware from making use of Let’s Encrypt exists. Having a secure connection to a website does not make that site trustworthy. Since the majority of site visitors don’t understand this subtle difference, it opens up some worrying possibilities. With Let’s Encrypt, anyone can gain https status, but not everyone has been verified to the extent required for green bar status. That extra “s” carries trust implicitly.Īlthough Let’s Encrypt is providing encryption only, its presence on a website gives the impression to a lot of visitors that they can place the same levels of trust in the site as they can for so-called ‘green bar’ sites with Extended Domain Validation – this is a https address with a padlock logo next to the business name in the website address bar. The majority of the population who are not IT professionals and/or geeks will see https on a site and immediately place their trust in it. At face value this should be positive, however, human nature must be taken into consideration. It effectively democratises who can access https for their website. While Let’s Encrypt sounds great in theory, it’s not without its problems. In addition to this, there are tools provided so that the installation and setup of your certificate are as painless as possible.
Visitors to a website that’s using Let’s Encrypt are essentially protected. The result is that website owners are now able to offer https and all its benefits to site visitors but don’t have to spend a lot of extra money to do it.
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Let’s Encrypt revolutionised this process, by making access to certificates totally free, and ensuring the installation process, as well as your certificate’s update capabilities, are both as easy as possible. The process necessitated spending a fair chunk of change and going through a trusted certificate authority, in order to encrypt your website’s traffic. Prior to Let’s Encrypt becoming available for webmasters, it was tricky to obtain a certificate for https.
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