Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

Cloudflare has announced plans to launch a global certificate authority (CA) that will provide free SSL certificates to websites. The CA will be called Cloudflare Certificate Authority and will offer free SSL certificates for all domains, with no requirements for email verification or domain validation. The CA will be built on top of Cloudflare's existing infrastructure, and will use the ACME protocol to automate the certificate issuance process. The goal is to make it easy for anyone to obtain a free SSL certificate, regardless of their technical expertise or budget. Cloudflare is working with the Internet Society to develop the CA, and will be contributing to the development of the ACME protocol to improve its security and scalability.