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W3Techs ForumLet's Encrypt Certificates being identified as IdenTrust CertificatesAbhishek Deshpande on 23 November 2021, 3 years ago Recently, I found that, SSL certificate from R3 authority are being identified as IdenTrust Certificates by W3techs. I know that IdenTrust is a partner of Let's Encrypt authority and had cross-signed their root certificate in past. But nowadays, Let's Encrypt is using their own root certificate (ISRG Root X series) and the DST root is recently expired. So identifying them as Let's Encrypt itself would be appropriate. Otherwise it may affect the statistics.Sam Soltano (site administrator) on 24 November 2021, 3 years ago Thank you for sharing that observation. We do actually look at the root certificate for our statistics. If you say that Let's Encrypt is using their own root certificate, that's correct, but we are looking at the certificate chains installed on the web servers. Let's Encrypt did actually see a significant increase recently due to this change. We might change the way we measure certificates in such cases in the future. Abhishek Deshpande on 24 November 2021, 3 years ago Thank you for your reply...!You need to be logged in to reply. |
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