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El Reg reports:
Hoping to expand the pool of Let's Encrypt testers, TrueCrypt audit project co-founder Kenneth White has run up a set of scripts to automate the process of installing certificates under the Mozilla-backed open CA.
White, co-director of the Open Crypto Audit Project, has posted the work at Github, here. He explains that the project is quite simple, consisting of Python scripts to "stand up the official Let's Encrypt certificate management ACME client tool" in the target environments.
These include Debian, Amazon's Linux (for AWS), CentOS, RedHat, and FreeBSD.
[...]White says [...] the official client "can be fragile and error-prone on some systems".
Having had to batter his own head against the client, White [...] says he cleaned up the process in his scripts to make Let's Encrypt more accessible to other users.
He warns against running either the Let's Encrypt client or his scripts in production systems:
"LE is still in beta and has some rough edges", White notes, "including silently invoking sudo and installing quite a few development packages".
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(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Tuesday November 10 2015, @08:01PM
Hey, this is a good technical story that I like. But the headline doesn't parse. You read it and ask how you encrypt gets.
"Let's Encrypt" Software Gets Automation
Testers Get "Let's Encrypt" Automated Scripts
I like the second one, especially if you could work Python into it, because it tells you this is a cool technical story you want to read.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:04AM
Had you been paying attention to Lets Encrypt all along, this would be a non-story, because automation of the certificate process was the WHOLE focus of Let's Encrypt.
The automation handles the application process, as well as the installation process, as well as the refresh process for certificates that occurs every 90 days. (Yes, short duration certs are preferable).
The scripts are all right there at the second link for anyone to see.
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