According to Let's Encrypt's status page, the certificate authority experienced an outage on June nineteenth, lasting most of the day. Let's Encrypt issues free, automated SSL certificates that secure roughly half the internet—making this an infrastructure-level disruption. The outage likely prevented website administrators from issuing or renewing HTTPS certificates during that window. Details on the cause and resolution were not immediately available.

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