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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.

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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 14 2018, @06:04PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday March 14 2018, @06:04PM (#652528)

    They validate that you're able to alter the DNS records or files present on the webserver it points to.

    Better than I expected... probably as good as we want it (anything "better" would be much less convenient.)

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