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

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, @05:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14 2018, @05:48PM (#652519)

    > i guess if you had dynamically generated sub.domain names you needed to be valid, but i don't need that.

    Ah, alright then. I guess we should contact LE that they can scrap this capability, since AC doesn't need it.

    :)