Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
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Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
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Re: Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
#2I think they nail their point with "it illustrates the strong demand for our services."
Letsencrypt is cheap (free) and easy to use.
Even people with not a lot experience can secure their sites and apps, and it just works. Yes, you have to update it every three months, but that's worth the price and the excellent documentation.
Before letsencrypt I always wanted to secure my blog with https but never got around to it or it just looked super complicated and error prone.
Then, my provider built its own tool for LE and its just so easy to implement.
Re: Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
#3I would like to get a certificate with 3-years lifetime. I know that 90-days will limit the damage from key compromise, but I don't want to automate...
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#4I would like to get a certificate with 3-years lifetime. I know that 90-days will limit the damage from key compromise, but I don't want to automate...
you're perfectly free to pay $10/year for a manually issued certificate from one of 50 other providers
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#5I would like to get a certificate with 3-years lifetime. I know that 90-days will limit the damage from key compromise, but I don't want to automate...
Why not? There are even docker containers that will do everything for you, all you have to do is tag your application containers:
https://github.com/JrCs/docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-compa...
Re: Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
#6Nearly 20K of them for Paypal phishing sites and who knows how many for others. While a noble intention, one can't ignore the damage they've done.
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#7Nearly 20K of them for Paypal phishing sites and who knows how many for others. While a noble intention, one can't ignore the damage they've done.
What prevented Paypal phishing sites from buying certificates from other providers?
Re: Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
#8Nearly 20K of them for Paypal phishing sites and who knows how many for others. While a noble intention, one can't ignore the damage they've done.
damage they've done? Or damage phishers have done? Are we not to advance technology because some scumbags might abuse the technology?
Re: Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
#9I think they nail their point with "it illustrates the strong demand for our services." Letsencrypt is cheap (free) and easy to use. Even people with not a lot experience can secure their sites and apps, and it just works. Yes, you have to update it every three months, but that's worth the price and the excellent documentation. Before letsencrypt I always wanted to secure my blog with https but never got around to it…
> Even people with not a lot experience can secure their sites and apps, and it just works. Yes, you have to update it every three months, but that's worth the price and the excellent documentation.
This is just a cronjob, no?
Re: Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
#10I would like to get a certificate with 3-years lifetime. I know that 90-days will limit the damage from key compromise, but I don't want to automate...
I was in the same boat, I didn't like having to run python on my server just to renew a SSL certificate. Still, a few months ago I decided to give it a try and I don't regret it. The certbot script is packaged in FreeBSD, it wasn't painful at all to setup and a crontask later it was over. Definitely beats the crappy free "startssl" certificates that I used previously.