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Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web | Electronic Frontier Foundation

www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-entire-web

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Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP to HTTPS.