{"id":39586,"date":"2021-02-15T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T11:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/lets-encrypt-completes-huge-upgrade-can-now-rip-and-replace-200-million-security-certs-in-worst-case-scenario\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T11:41:13","slug":"lets-encrypt-completes-huge-upgrade-can-now-rip-and-replace-200-million-security-certs-in-worst-case-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/lets-encrypt-completes-huge-upgrade-can-now-rip-and-replace-200-million-security-certs-in-worst-case-scenario\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Encrypt completes huge upgrade, can now rip and replace 200 million security certs in ‘worst case scenario’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In brief<\/span> Internet Security Research Group nonprofit Let’s Encrypt has massively upgraded its certification hardware and software so that it can delete and reissue all its certs in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Last April the certificate authority was forced<\/a> to kill three million HTTPS certs after a bug was found in its automated certificate management environment, about 2.6 per cent of its 150 million live certificate base. That caused some head-scratching.<\/p>\n