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Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root

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Re: Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root

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They haven't really published a list of good/bad clients. I'm interested in what's the practical cutoff point with mobile phones? I expect desktop browsers will be less of an issue.

They provide a test site. It works on my Android One: https://valid-isrgrootx1.letsencrypt.org/

People with other versions of Android and iOS can test and report here?

Re: Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root

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Is it still hard to do wildcard certs with them? That is one of the reasons I don't use let's encrypt.

It’s easy if you have a DNS provider for which there is a DNS-auth module.

This was one of the reasons for me switching to Cloudflare DNS, although many other providers should work too.

Re: Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root

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Is it still hard to do wildcard certs with them? That is one of the reasons I don't use let's encrypt.

It's easier now with ACME v2 and using DNS for authentication or whatever.

I can confirm, I recently did it using certbot and it was an easy and smooth process.

Re: Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root

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Is it still hard to do wildcard certs with them? That is one of the reasons I don't use let's encrypt.

Hard in what way? Using my favorite client/library (https://go-acme.github.io/lego/) I can generate wildcard cert with:

  lego \
      --email="info@example.com" \
      --accept-tos \
      --path="./ssl" \
      --domains="*.example.com" \
      --dns="route53"
(AWS credentials need to be available in the environment)
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