# Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates

<https://letsencrypt.org/2020/09/17/new-root-and-intermediates.html>

- Host: [letsencrypt.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/letsencrypt.org/)
- Saved: September 23, 2020 (2020-09-24T02:33:45Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/315310b25ca4/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/315310b25ca4.json

## What Jamie wrote

Interesting read on certificate signing at the root level. There are not a lot of use cases where we care about 400 bytes here and 196 bytes there, but this is one of them.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT158: Weekly Thing #158 / Blacklight, Whistleblower, Fly Fishing](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/158/), FYI

## Same host

- [The ACME Protocol is an IETF Standard — Let's Encrypt](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/64ed868d0e93/) (letsencrypt.org, March 11, 2019)
- [Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates - Let's Encrypt](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9503698f2d23/) (letsencrypt.org, February 27, 2020)
- [Standing on Our Own Two Feet - Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1caf59fb0752/) (letsencrypt.org, November 8, 2020)
- [Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours - Let's Encrypt](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/13d36fe39611/) (letsencrypt.org, February 11, 2021)
- [Let’s Encrypt serving Shopify’s 4.5 million domains - Let's Encrypt](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4672c5260b19/) (letsencrypt.org, September 16, 2021)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://letsencrypt.org/2020/09/17/new-root-and-intermediates.html