Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
- Twelve years ago, during Birthday Week 2014, we turned on Universal SSL and nearly doubled the number of encrypted sites on the web overnight, giving free TLS to every site behind Cloudflare, including the ones that never paid us a cent.
- Encryption stopped being an expensive, time-intensive undertaking and instead became the default.
- For Birthday Week this year, we are taking the next step on that path.
Unverified
- Twelve years ago, during Birthday Week 2014, we turned on Universal SSL and nearly doubled the number of encrypted sites on the web overnight, giving free TLS to every site behind Cloudflare, including the ones that never paid us a cent.
- Encryption stopped being an expensive, time-intensive undertaking and instead became the default.
- For Birthday Week this year, we are taking the next step on that path.
Sources: Cloudflare