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Going Back to Our Roots: A Little Piece of Let's Encrypt History

Ten years ago, we printed one of the nerdiest t-shirts we’ve ever made. On the front was the entire PEM encoding of ISRG Root X1 in base64. Back then, it represented a future we were working toward. Today, that same design tells the story of just how far Let’s Encrypt has come. Let’s Encrypt was already issuing publicly trusted certificates in 2016, but ISRG Root X1 itself was still slowly and qui

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Going Back to Our Roots: A Little Piece of Let's Encrypt History
First reported
Aug 11, 2026 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Aug 11, 2026 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:47 UTC
Record ID
7ac589e5ae60eed05d03bd2d9c19f09198cb7a0f955dd0087ab62515c9abd06a

Published indicators

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Source observations

src_823f7b237762257237

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Aug 11, 2026 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:47 UTC

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.

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  • src_823f7b237762257237Collection status unverifiedLast successful batch: Unverified

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