---
date: '2020-02-27'
title: Let's Encrypt hits 1 billion certificates issued
description: "We issued our billionth certificate on February 27, 2020. We're going to use this big round number as an opportunity to reflect on what has changed for us, and for the Internet, leading up to this event. In particular, we want to talk about what has happened since the last time we talked about a big round number of certificates - one hundred million."
tags: ['security', 'development']
---

**[Let's Encrypt:](https://letsencrypt.org/2020/02/27/one-billion-certs.html)**

> We issued our billionth certificate on February 27, 2020. We're going to use this big round number as an opportunity to reflect on what has changed for us, and for the Internet, leading up to this event. In particular, we want to talk about what has happened since the last time we talked about a big round number of certificates - one hundred million.<!-- excerpt -->
