Hot on the heels of hitting the 1 million certificates issued milestone, the Let’s Encrypt project has announced it will be changing it’s name and moving to be hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The goal of the Let’s Encrypt project is to make it as easy as possible to provide HTTPS encryption on web servers, and it seems they have done a great job at this so far. The name change has been inspired by the need to create a client that is customizable without needing to decide whether variants should use the Let’s Encrypt trademark. The goal is to eventually make the Let’s Encrypt client work with any ACME-enabled certificate authority in the future, not just the authority the project hosts.
The EFF has continuously fought to protect individual freedoms in the digital world, and it should prove to be a great place to host this project. For more information, read the official blog post.
