"Let’s Encrypt" the Entire Web: free certificates!

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web | Electronic Frontier Foundation:
"Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP to HTTPS.
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The biggest obstacle to HTTPS deployment has been the complexity, bureaucracy, and cost of the certificates that HTTPS requires. We’re all familiar with the warnings and error messages produced by misconfigured certificates. These warnings are a hint that HTTPS (and other uses of TLS/SSL) is dependent on a horrifyingly complex and often structurally dysfunctional bureaucracy for authentication.
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Let’s Encrypt will employ a number of new technologies to manage secure automated verification of domains and issuance of certificates."