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Free SSL certificates starting mid 2015
This is being sponsored by Mozilla, Akamai, Cisco, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and IdenTrust.
They are also greatly simplify the install procedure.
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Very interesting...
Will have to wait and see.
The guys on the metzdowd cryptography list were debating about whether if their cryptographic security on the back end was strong enough.
I can't wait to see this... It's long overdue
Oh yeah. I have been idling in #letsencrypt for a while.. Jdkasten has been working really hard on a client development.. Initially it will only work with ubuntu and apache.
Bookmarked, going to check this weekly to see if anything's updated, although it says Q2 2015
Wonder where the certs are coming from - None of this companies has a Root Cert in all modern browsers.
In principle, free certs for all is a good idea but the problems with this project are numerous. Rather than retype:
https://raindog308.com/the-problems-with-the-lets-encrypt-project/
was commenting on above until I realized they are backlink trolling their tinfoil hat nonsense. Please delete this post.
I would agree they are focusing on absolutely the wrong thing. Looks like I will need to construct a f-cking chroot around his wonderful client, giving it ubuntu, apache, or whatever other stupid shit it requires -- all that simply to fetch the PEM file from there for use with my real setup with Lighttpd and Debian (and no, I am not letting some "script" to touch my highly custom server configurations, just give me a PEM file, I will install it myself...).
Preview: https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview
Hasn't this been posted before?
@rm_ well, the protocol is open, so it shouldn't be difficult to write a client that doesn't interact with web server automatically.