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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 14 2018, @09:16PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday March 14 2018, @09:16PM (#652600) Homepage Journal

    Naw, just getting more specific about our own example for those following along.

    Not sure on the wildcard cert policy. They may give out as many per base domain as they gave out of non-wildcard certs but I somehow doubt it. And unless/until we actually need a new hostname added, there's no benefit in switching to wildcard certs over multi-host certs since we already have the multi-host certs set up properly.

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