# Let's Encrypt's Potential to Expand Free, Automated HTTPS Certificates

DevFeed: [Let's Encrypt's Potential to Expand Free, Automated HTTPS Certificates](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/let-s-encrypt-the-road-towards-a-better-web-27100.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/04/12/lets-encrypt-the-road-towards-a-better-web/>)

Author: andreacorbellini

Published: 2015-04-12T16:07:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Andrea Corbellini](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/andrea-corbellini.md>)

Topics: [certificates](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/certificates.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [HTTP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/http.md>)

Tags: [automated](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automated.md>), [certificates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/certificates.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [https](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/https.md>), [information-technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/information-technology.md>), [let-s-encrypt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/let-s-encrypt.md>), [mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mozilla.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [tls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tls.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses Let's Encrypt as a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority and considers whether it could expand access to HTTPS certificates and help reduce reliance on plain HTTP. It also raises questions about browser support, incumbent Certificate Authorities, and future certificate management.

## Source excerpt

I've always dreamed of a encrypted web, where HTTPS is the standard and plain HTTP is no more. A web where eavesdropping or manipulating information is not possible, or at least much harder than today. I remember that I got excited when I first heard of CAcert: "a community-driven Certificate Authority that issues certificates to the public at large for free". Unfortunately, CAcert ...