EFF: From Encrypting the Web to Encrypting the Net: A Technical Deep Dive on Using Certbot to Secure your Mailserver
From Encrypting the Web to Encrypting the Net: A Technical Deep Dive on Using Certbot to Secure your Mailserver We’ve come a long way since we launched Encrypt the Web , our initiative to onboard the World Wide Web to HTTPS. Not only has Let’s Encrypt issued over 380 million certificates , but also nearly 85% of page loads in the United States are over HTTPS, and both figures are still on an upward trajectory. However, TLS, the technology that helps to secure HTTP connections, can and should be used to protect all Internet communications—not just the HTTP protocol used to fetch webpages. Though HTTP/S makes up the majority of Internet traffic, there are other network protocols out there that are extremely important to secure. The Internet’s address book, file-sharing between computers, and email don’t use HTTP; they use other communication protocols which are also insecure by default and can benefit from TLS as well, to varying degrees of success. Since most of Certbot’s user...