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Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours

On a normal day Let’s Encrypt issues nearly two million certificates. When we think about what essential infrastructure for the Internet needs to be prepared for though, we’re not thinking about normal days. We want to be prepared to respond as best we can to the most difficult situations that might arise. In some of the worst scenarios, we might want to re-issue all of our certificates in a 24 ho

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours
First reported
Feb 10, 2021 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Feb 10, 2021 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:47 UTC
Record ID
f12324e8980a45d64b3d769663dfa1b4ff1919eaa8167e9f067278a373a4cb8b

Published indicators

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Source observations

src_823f7b237762257237

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Feb 10, 2021 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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