Updated on Aug 9, 2023
Online security is vital nowadays. One way to make sure connections to your website are secure is to issue an SSL certificate for it. That will enable the website to load via the HTTPS protocol, which will encrypt all connections to it. Such a certificate can be issued by a Certificate Authority (CA), and Let's Encrypt is such an authority. In this tutorial we will tell you about Let’s Encrypt, what it is, how it works and how to get an SSL certificate from it.
Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority that is free, automated, and open. It provides free digital certificates to allow HTTPS (SSL/TLS) encryption for your website. Its fundamental principles are: