- Let’s encrypt will stop E emails from the June 2025 certificate
- It says most users have automated renewals anyway
- Move will also see that the organization will delete millions of E -mail addresses from its database
Let’s encrypt have revealed that it will no longer notify site administrators when their SSL/TLS certificates are about to expire. While this sounds like problems – it seems to be a good thing.
The news was confirmed by the company’s CEO and co-founder, Josh Aas, in a blog post that noted that e-mail messages will stop going out on June 4, 2025 with reference to four important reasons. The first is that a growing majority of subscribers have automatic renewal of certificate, reliable, making the service somewhat outdated.
The second reason is to cut down on costs – giving out expiry messages costs the organization “Tens of thousands of dollars a year,” AAS said, adding that the money could be used better elsewhere.
Protecting users’ privacy
“Providing expiry messages adds complexity to our infrastructure, which takes time and attention to control and increase the likelihood of mistakes,” he said in the article. “In the long term, especially when we add support to new service components, we need to control the overall complexity of phasing out system components that can no longer be justified.”
However, the fourth reason is particularly interesting as it essentially protects users’ privacy. Sending E -Mail messages also means that the organization must keep millions of E -mail addresses connected to issuing registers. “As an organization that appreciates privacy, it is important for us to remove this requirement.”
In other words, let’s encrypt will delete millions of E -email addresses from its database, reducing the risk of the e emails being snapped by a threat actor.
For those who would like to continue to receive email notifications, we suggest encrypting a third-party service such as Red Sift Certificates Lite, which is free for up to 250 certificates.
Let’s encrypt is a free, automated and open certificate authority (CA) that provides SSL/TLS certificates for websites. It helps encrypt web traffic and ensure secure connections between users and sites (HTTPS).
