Free, public certificate authorities (CAs) are difficult for a free CA to provide any security assurance. Let’s Encrypt has issued more than 15,000 digital certificates with the word “PayPal” in the subject name. Most of these digital certificates are related to phishing attacks, according to HashedOut’s analysis, that would be a whopping 96.7 percent of them. CAs don’t provide much identity assurance because they don’t operate for profit and can’t afford it.”]