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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @09:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @09:23AM (#652855)

    That's not necessarily true. Certificate auto-deployment is widely used in a variety of use cases, with client and server certs issued by an internal CA.

    You are mixing up his reasons.

    Deploying official certificates (such as let's encrypt) needs to be manual, as the renewal requires an internet connection and the network is not connected to the internet. This makes the 90 day limit inconvenient.

    Using an internal CA is inconvenient for different reasons.

    Either way, buying an expensive three year certificate becomes the cheapest solution.

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