Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident

DerekL 19 hours ago|

The title is misspelled. It's “Let's Encrypt”, with an apostrophe.

jstyles 19 hours ago||

Hopefully just a minor mississuance incident and not something more serious.

croemer 18 hours ago||

Issuance was stopped almost 2 hours ago: May 8, 2026 18:37 UTC.

bstsb 19 hours ago||

in other news, Digicert's Secure Site Pro certificates are down to only $5,880.00 yearly for one wildcard domain!

baigy 19 hours ago||

dang I'll have to return to paid certs again?

t1234s 19 hours ago||

How much of the internet is going to fail because of this?

nicolas_17 18 hours ago||

None, unless someone is renewing their certificates only 2 hours before they expire, which is a dumb thing to do.

walrus01 18 hours ago||

It's an interesting thought experiment to consider how much of 'the internet' would still find a way to communicate with each other and fix the problem if somebody waved a magic wand and all http and https servers and clients magically disappeared worldwide instantly.

For instance some of the folks who run core BGP at medium to large sized ISPs would revert back to a few legacy IRC channels and find each other to chat and figure out WTF is going on.

"the internet" would still exist, a subset of the application layer stuff that runs on top it wouldn't...

ben0x539 18 hours ago||

I bet we'd see a bunch of unexpected breakage in presumed-to-be-lower-level-than-http[s] infrastructure so that eg. your legacy IRC server goes down because it's running on rented hardware and the hosting provider's operations rely on some internal http services.

walrus01 17 hours ago||

This is extremely likely in the case of many automated provisioning, billing, and web interface control panel systems for shared hosting platforms, VPS, virtual machine service providers that likely do something https to https internally to communicate between tooling.

In my intentionally absurd theoretical scenario, what would remain up would be the bare metal in colocation in certain service providers' environments...

esseph 19 hours ago||

Some other internet things going on to Discord, Cloudflare, and others.

Unsure if related in any way.

noplacelikehome 19 hours ago|

Here's hoping it's not another security nightmare...