joeyh

Let's encrypt

joeyh at

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/announcing-lets-encrypt/

A free CA that works with server-side software to auto-deploy and renew SSL certs.

My old pal Seth Schoen is involved (though not his ascii beard), I'm excited.

Jakukyo Friel, Douglas Perkins, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), netgeek and 9 others likes this.

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), Christopher Allan Webber, lnxwalt@microca.st, lnxwalt@microca.st and 1 others shared this.

Show all 8 replies

Just paused the video to read it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gas_sSB-5SU

It currently is all "this is a dev preview, won't actually give you real certs, kthx". I wonder what will be there after it's not a dev preview?

Full text: https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview/blob/master/EULA

Greg Grossmeier at 2014-11-18T16:39:05Z

Jakukyo Friel likes this.

@Greg Grossmeier They need to go through a lot of processes, including becoming a browser-installed real CA, right?

It looks like they're working with Mozilla though, so that's good.

Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-11-18T16:54:01Z

Jakukyo Friel likes this.

Chris: Yeah, I guess a EULA isn't out of the question given the use case. I just have a knee-jerk reaction to them :P

Greg Grossmeier at 2014-11-18T16:59:04Z

I hear ya. But you gotta sign one to get an SSL cert these days in my experience anyway... or a domain... or anything identifier oriented in this modern web ;p

Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-11-18T17:03:10Z

Jakukyo Friel, X11R5, Greg Grossmeier likes this.