Percentage of pages loaded over HTTPS – Google Transparency Report The adoption was huge: Let’s Encrypt has been publicly launched in 2016 and has already delivered more than 33M certificate since then, for more than 40M domains.
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In 2014, a new non-profit Certificate Authority was created by the ISRG with the idea to provide trusted certificates for free for everyone. However, despite the huge benefit of using SSL/TLS, anyone who requests a trusted certificate for a specific domain needs to regularly pay an expensive fee, which slows down the adoption rate. If it’s successful, the service will be authenticated. Once a service requests a certificate to be authenticated, the Certification Authority proceeds to a multiple-step process in order to verify the owner identity. There currently are a lot of different CAs and all of them need to strictly follow the guidelines in order to stay trusted by web browsers, operating systems, and other software. This third party is called a Certificate Authority (CA). This is possible thanks to a chain of trust established between the user software (a web browser, for instance) and a third-party who authenticated the service (a website, for instance). The security gain is then huge, as it’s possible to transmit sensitive data in an authenticated way without being modified. It’s also no longer possible to modify this data on the fly. The web page name, its content, the logins are no longer exposed to whoever snoops between the user and the website. Now, the intermediaries only get access to the website reached and the user’s IP address.
Who can still snoop on your connection with HTTPS, and what can they see? (by The TorProject)
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