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Let's Encrypt Takes Free “Wildcard” Certificates Live

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday March 14 2018, @02:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the simple-cypers dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Arstechnica reports

In July of 2017, the nonprofit certificate authority Let's Encrypt promised to deliver something that would put secure websites and Web applications within reach of any Internet user: free "wildcard" certificates to enable secure HTTP connections for entire domains. Today, Let's Encrypt took that promised service live, in addition to a new version of the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol, an interface that can be used by a variety of client software packages to automate verification of certificate requests.

[....]Many hosting providers already support the registration of Let's Encrypt certificates to varying degrees. But Let's Encrypt's free certificate offering hasn't been snapped up by some larger hosting providers—such as GoDaddy—who also sell SSL certificates to their customers.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14 2018, @04:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14 2018, @04:32PM (#652474)

    Interesting, and yet I managed to renew the certificates on multiple machine that don't have access to the internet at all. Let's Encrypt does not depend on having a web server on the machine you want the certificate on. In fact, getting wildcard certs won't work with web-challenge-only clients anyway, you need a ACMEv2 compatible client and use the DNS challenge. The real problem with Let's Encrypt is that most people don't understand that it is a just a single provider that uses an open standard that has multiple clients and providers available.