Category Archives: https

KeyChest – FREE plan and track for 100% HTTPS uptime

We have been using Letsencrypt certificates for a year now. As it is free, we have been constantly increasing the number of services using it. I personally like the three months validity as it makes renewals a “business as usual” task, rather than incidents. But it doesn’t happen through magic.

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How Certbot and Letsencrypt Work (DNS and SNI-TLS automation)

We introduce an integration plugin for Let’s Encrypt. It provides integration for a variety of mechanisms that enable and simplify verification of domain control and certificate installation. We already tested it with Dehydrated (former letsencrypt.py) . It supports all existing verification methods: DNS, HTTP and TLS-SNI, in their current versions “01”.

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Letsencrypt’s Vulnerability Or Feature – Eternal Account Key

 

The growth of Let’s Encrypt is phenomenal – 7 million certificates in last four months. The remaining hurdle for automation is verification of domain ownership. Well, actually it is NOT true. We were doing syntax testing – hoping to get the right kind of verification error … only to discover we have been successfully verified without providing any information.

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