8mo ago

Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our nonprofit work this year in our 2023 Annual Report.

publication croisée depuis : https://lemmy.pierre-couy.fr/post/805239

Happy birthday to Let's Encrypt !
Huge thanks to everyone involved in making HTTPS available to everyone for free !

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It's mind-bogglingly convenient, especially compared to the before times. Consider donating to them if you can.
- I don't understand why so many organizations make it so hard to donate. Why do I need to enter my name and e-mail only to discover you don't support european banks. It cannot be that complicated to set up an eu-bankaccount and publish the IBAN to just let me wire money, right?
- I just sent em $10. Thanks for posting the link.
- What was it like in the before times?
  
  You had to request certificates manually from providers like a savage.
  
  We walked uphill both ways.
  
  I remember taking my first selfhosting/Linux steps a year or so after the launch of Let's Encrypt with a Pi 3. At the time, most tutorials didn't set up https at all, and if they did, they were self signed certificates (resulting in browser warnings).
  Self-signed certificates are annoying and creating them was a series of copy pasting long, weird commands, usually using long exspiration dates (manual renewing sucks).
  Not long after, guides started recommending certbot. Nowadays reverse proxys like caddy set up TLS automatically.
  At least that's how I remember it, given my complete lack of knowledge about Linux at the time.

I can't imagine living without it
- Well if they ever pull another "you must use snap or die", you'll have to imagine it. Thankfully, this exists https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh
  
  certbot is pretty solid
  Also a lot of software like Nginx proxy manager and Caddy have build in hassle free setup

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