Let's Encrypt, a Certificate Authority (CA) that puts the "S" in "HTTPS" for about 220m domains, has issued a warning to users of older Android devices that their web surfing may get choppy next year.
Let's Encrypt launched four years ago to make it easier to set up a secure website. To jumpstart its trust relationship with various software and browser makers – necessary for its digital certificates to be accepted – it piggybacked on IndenTrust's DST Root X3 certificate. As a result, the non-profit's certificates could be presented by websites and be trusted by all the major web browsers to connect to them securely.
The CA, overseen by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), subsequently issued its own root certificate (ISRG Root X1) and applied for it to be trusted with the major software platforms. By J ..
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