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Comment by OzzyB | Hacker News Reader

This is a welcomed addition that many have been patiently waiting for.

If you want to see the progress here's the relevant ticket[0] -- nice to see it finally closed!

Not privy to the final implementation details but my guess it's a based on Let's Encrypt as suggested by the originator of the ticket and others.

Edit: Yeah, probably not Let's Encrypt as others have stated.

I guess it's based on Google's own Certificate Authority, instead of Let's Encrypt, according to this:

For the record, I guessed wrong. I enabled the feature and checked the certificate: it's based on Let's Encrypt ;-)

It is Let's Encrypt, I just converted my test project so that I could kill the Jenkins job to update the Cert.

  Issued By
    Common Name (CN)	Let's Encrypt Authority X3

I turned this on today via gcloud, and the certificate I was issued is from Let's Encrypt.

Google purchased its own root CA from GlobalSign, so I’d assume it’s coming from there instead.