Subject: [perpass] Paper on Let's Encrypt adoption

From: "Giovane C. M. Moura" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:22:40 +0100

Hello folks,

We have this new paper that some of the list may find interesting. It's
about the adoption of Let's Encrypt[1]:

>From the paper [2]:

"Once [costs and complexity] are eliminated, it enables big hosting
providers to issue and deploy certificates for their customers in bulk,
thus quickly and automatically enable encryption across a large number
of domains. For example, we have shown that currently, 47% of LE
certified domains are hosted at three large hosting companies
(Automattic/wordpress.com, Shopify, and OVH)."

More discussion in [3][4].

Best,

/giovane

[1] https://letsencrypt.org
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.03005.pdf
[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/lets_encrypt_is.html
[4]
https://www.reddit.com/r/letsencrypt/comments/5hvt2v/lets_encrypt_filling_a_void_in_ca_industry/