<story><title>Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2017/06/28/hundred-million-certs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>SSL certificate from a traditional provider valid for a year: $10.&lt;p&gt;SSL certificate from a traditional provider valid for two years: $20.&lt;p&gt;Automated SSL certificate generation and deployment via LetsEncrypt with zero human intervention and more importantly zero human intervention to renew it going forward - &lt;i&gt;priceless&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s the real value for me. At $10&amp;#x2F;cert, that&amp;#x27;s not even a rounding error. But manually generating a new CSR, uploading it via crappy web form, waiting a random amount of time, proving domain ownership by responding to an email (sent in plaintext), waiting a different random amount of time, downloading the new cert (again usually sent via plaintext email), and finally copying it over the old cert and reloading the SSL conf ... now that costs some serious time and time &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; money.</text></comment>
<story><title>Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued</title><url>https://letsencrypt.org/2017/06/28/hundred-million-certs.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>This is an interesting situation where &amp;quot;public good&amp;quot; happened to align well with business goals of some deep pockets.&lt;p&gt;Particularly, Google and Akamai...two of the biggest LE sponsors.   They both retain good visibility to user behavior (like specific urls visited) because of things like GA,MITM proxying, etc.  But, ubiquitous availability of that is taken away from ISP operators.&lt;p&gt;Which is a good thing.  Makes me curious if there&amp;#x27;s anything else like this that could be achieved.  Are there other net public good projects that align well with deep pocket potential sponsors?</text></comment>