[perpass] Paper on Let's Encrypt adoption

"Giovane C. M. Moura" <giovane.moura@sidn.nl> Thu, 15 December 2016 07:22 UTC

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Subject: [perpass] Paper on Let's Encrypt adoption
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Hello folks,

We have this new paper that some of the list may find interesting. It's
about the adoption of Let's Encrypt[1]:

>From the paper [2]:

"Once [costs and complexity] are eliminated, it enables big hosting
providers to issue and deploy certificates for their customers in bulk,
thus quickly and automatically enable encryption across a large number
of domains. For example, we have shown that currently, 47% of LE
certified domains are hosted at three large hosting companies
(Automattic/wordpress.com, Shopify, and OVH)."

More discussion in [3][4].

Best,

/giovane


[1] https://letsencrypt.org
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.03005.pdf
[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/lets_encrypt_is.html
[4]
https://www.reddit.com/r/letsencrypt/comments/5hvt2v/lets_encrypt_filling_a_void_in_ca_industry/