Free SSL Certificates

It has many benefits for using SSL to enable HTTPS for web services as discussed therein.  In fact, you can access this blog via HTTPS as Google states. It is possible that you can obtain free certificates from a very limited list of providers. Previously, I took a note on "Free SSL Certificates for Securing E-mails and Websites".

I came across Let's Encrypt that can provide free SSL certificates and has a protocol that allows a web service to obtain the certificates "on the fly".

Here is a list of information that may be of your interest before you try.  You can certainly find out the information for their website.

• Which browsers and operating systems support Let’s Encrypt?
• Root Certificates and chain of trust
• User community