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El Reg reports:
Hoping to expand the pool of Let's Encrypt testers, TrueCrypt audit project co-founder Kenneth White has run up a set of scripts to automate the process of installing certificates under the Mozilla-backed open CA.
White, co-director of the Open Crypto Audit Project, has posted the work at Github, here. He explains that the project is quite simple, consisting of Python scripts to "stand up the official Let's Encrypt certificate management ACME client tool" in the target environments.
These include Debian, Amazon's Linux (for AWS), CentOS, RedHat, and FreeBSD.
[...]White says [...] the official client "can be fragile and error-prone on some systems".
Having had to batter his own head against the client, White [...] says he cleaned up the process in his scripts to make Let's Encrypt more accessible to other users.
He warns against running either the Let's Encrypt client or his scripts in production systems:
"LE is still in beta and has some rough edges", White notes, "including silently invoking sudo and installing quite a few development packages".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:03PM
Just give me the cert pack and let me install it myself. Why the hell is that too much to ask for? I can be trusted to run a server but not to install my own certs? FAIL...
(Score: 2) by tempest on Wednesday November 11 2015, @03:18PM
If you want to apply for a free certificate you install yourself, StartSSL already offers them.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday November 12 2015, @09:04PM
According to their website [letsencrypt.org], you can install these certs manually too if you'd like. But since they only issue 90 day certs, they suggest you automate it.