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title: "What Is Let’s Encrypt?"
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slug: "what-is-lets-encrypt"
published_at: "2018-05-01T17:46:30+00:00"
modified_at: "2019-09-26T18:39:01+00:00"
url: "https://www.greengeeks.com/support/article/what-is-lets-encrypt/"
markdown_url: "https://www.greengeeks.com/support/article/what-is-lets-encrypt.md"
excerpt: "Let’s Encrypt is an SSL certificate authority run for the public’s benefit by the Internet Security Research Group. Let’s Encrypt allows website owners to enable HTTPS (SSL/TLS) on their websites free of charge. GreenGeeks provisions Let’s Encrypt Wildcard SSL certificates...."
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  - "SSL Certificates"
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Let’s Encrypt is an SSL certificate authority run for the public’s benefit by the [Internet Security Research Group](https://www.abetterinternet.org/)
. Let’s Encrypt allows website owners to enable HTTPS (SSL/TLS) on their websites free of charge.

GreenGeeks provisions Let’s Encrypt Wildcard SSL certificates. The wildcard certificate covers any subdomains. For example https://blog.ggexample.com, https://www.ggexample.com, or https://anything.ggexample.com/.

Let’s Encrypt wildcard SSL certificates are issued for a period of 90 days and renewed automatically by GreenGeeks. Since the certificates are domain-validated, they do not require the use of a dedicated IP address.

To enable Let’s Encrypt on any of your hosted domain names, please read through [this article.](https://www.greengeeks.com/support/article/getting-started-adding-lets-encrypt-ssl-greengeeks-account/)