Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident – Resolved

esseph

Some other internet things going on to Discord, Cloudflare, and others. Unsure if related in any way.

noplacelikehome

Here's hoping it's not another security nightmare...

mcherm

There is one little-discussed down side to ever shorter-lived certificates...

mark_round

That's really not good. Fortunately I'm not using any short-lived certificates like the recently announced 6 day certs, so have some breathing room. Without further details, I'd imagine anyone with a short-lived cert is getting a bit sweaty right now. Let's Encrypt has become one of those pieces of critical Internet infrastructure that just quietly hums away in the background, the fact that they've stopped ALL issuance is deeply concerning.

kalmarv

Hopefully it's just a technical issue and not something like a key compromise. This could have disastrous effects considering how much of the web runs on LE certs these days. Granted if it's configured properly everyone should have 30 days of leeway before having to issue new certs...

cedws

Discord is out too right now, probably unrelated though.

jstyles

Hopefully just a minor mississuance incident and not something more serious.

bravetraveler

It's certainly an incident when ceasing to issue certificates... after doing absolutely everything, including limiting lifetime, to encourage their frequent renewal

bstsb

in other news, Digicert's Secure Site Pro certificates are down to only $5,880.00 yearly for one wildcard domain!

jaas

This is a compliance incident, we should be issuing again shortly. Update: Issuance is back up. Update: Preliminary incident report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2038351

x86a

They had scheduled maintenance a few hours ago, https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/maintenance/55957a99e800...

t1234s

How much of the internet is going to fail because of this?

baigy

dang I'll have to return to paid certs again?

DerekL

The title is misspelled. It's “Let's Encrypt”, with an apostrophe.

croemer

Issuance was stopped almost 2 hours ago: May 8, 2026 18:37 UTC.

hosteur

Related Cloudflare issue: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/z3vgxxfvt3yb