src_823f7b237762257237
- Source-provided label
- Not reported
- Evidence class
- mentioned in report
- Confidence
- Not reported
- Observed
- Jan 30, 2025 00:00 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:47 UTC
Scaling Our Rate Limits to Prepare for a Billion Active Certificates
Let’s Encrypt protects a vast portion of the Web by providing TLS certificates to over 550 million websites—a figure that has grown by 42% in the last year alone. We currently issue over 340,000 certificates per hour. To manage this immense traffic and maintain responsiveness under high demand, our infrastructure relies on rate limiting. In 2015, we introduced our first rate limiting system, built
Reference details
- Source category
- Research & news
- Report title
Scaling Our Rate Limits to Prepare for a Billion Active Certificates- First reported
- Jan 30, 2025 00:00 UTC
- Last reported
- Jan 30, 2025 00:00 UTC
- Catalog updated
- Oct 08, 2026 03:47 UTC
- Record ID
aa6e270fde26833c5c2b13cb9a3c529492eedb4149a9d9cb0e8a05327582f92b
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