Popular Bash shell script LetsEncrypt.sh, which is used to manage free SSL/TLS certificates from the Let's Encrypt project, has renamed this week to avoid a trademark row. This comes in the wake of Let's Encrypt successfully fending off Comodo, which tried to cynically snatch "Let's Encrypt" for itself.
LetsEncrypt.sh, written by Germany-based Lukas Schauer, is now known as Dehydrated. If you have scripts or apps that rely on pulling in his code and running it, they may stop working as a result of the name change. Dehydrated is developed independently by Schauer and is not officially affiliated with Let's Encrypt.
"This project was renamed from letsencrypt.sh because the original name was violating Let's Encrypt's trademark policy. I know that this results in quite a lot of installations failing but I didn't have a choice," reads the new Dehydrated README.
[...] Full disclosure: This article's author uses Let's Encrypt to provide HTTPS encryption for his personal websites. And you should use it too.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @03:20AM
HTTPS should be required, and it should be free. There are state sponsored and other man-in-the-middle attacks that compromise security and can enable DDoS attacks by injecting JavaScript in clear HTTP streams. Ideally, DNSSEC would store the CA for the domain instead of the browser's CA store, but a free CA is a second best option.
There is already a different icon for certificates that contain identity information, so the credit card thing is irrelevant.