---
date: '2020-03-04'
title: "Let's Encrypt Vulnerability"
description: "The BBC is reporting a vulnerability in the Let's Encrypt certificate service."
tags: ['security']
---

**[Bruce Schneier:](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/03/lets_encrypt_vu.html)**

> In a notification email to its clients, the organisation said: "We recently discovered a bug in the Let's Encrypt certificate authority code. Unfortunately, this means we need to revoke the certificates that were affected by this bug, which includes one or more of your certificates.<!-- excerpt -->
