How Did Let's Encrypt Change the World of the Internet When a Button Click Replaced Running a Client and Scheduling a 90-day Renewal?

On the show, Let's Encrypt solved one of the biggest gaps in the internet security space and changed the world of the internet. The certificate authority made it too easy to say no. Integrating issuance into web tooling makes the work a click of a button.

The button click replaces downloading a client, running it yourself, and scheduling renewals. The big pain with Let's Encrypt is the 90-day renewal, so a renewal process still has to keep running. People had to run the client on remote machines before the infrastructure was in place. The infrastructure is there now.

On the show, the success story is that Let's Encrypt came into existence and has done a good job of stewarding the certificate authority. The stewardship has been fantastic to see.