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.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 15 2018, @08:16AM
As someone who has implemented/automated PKI in large enterprise environments as well as small environments, I agree with the other AC.
This stuff is pretty easy to automate. Which is why stuff like 802.1x [wikipedia.org] authentication with certificates is pretty widespread.
Sure there are edge cases which make things a little more complicated, but so what?
Let's Encrypt's value is *specifically* in the web server certificate environment. In fact, it was rolled out to encourage more websites to support TLS. And you're disparaging it because it does what it was intended to do? Please.
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