One Million SSL Sites on the Web
The number of SSL certificates found by Netcraft's SSL Survey that are within their validity period, have a common name that matches the hostname and are issued by a widely trusted third party, has now exceeded one million.
Netcraft's first SSL Survey in November 1996 found a total of only 3,283 certificates around the globe. It took nearly a year for this total to grow to ten thousand, and it wasn't until August 2000 that the total exceeded a hundred thousand. In comparison, the past year has seen an average growth of more than 18,000 certificates per month.
Posted by Paul Mutton on 1st February, 2009 in Web Server Survey 