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Regarding your experience getting and managing certificates, I'm sorry to hear that you're having a difficult time. Our goal is to encrypt the entire Web, and
by jaas 10y ago
Regarding your experience getting and managing certificates, I'm sorry to hear that you're having a difficult time.
Our goal is to encrypt the entire Web, and that means working with an almost innumerable combination of operating systems, server software, hosting providers, management interfaces, permissions, deployment strategies... Most people have a very positive experience using Let's Encrypt but it's difficult to ensure that everyone does.
It's not possible for us to build the tools necessary for every situation (financially or otherwise). Our strategy, which has been working pretty well so far, is to focus on running a secure, stable, and well-documented CA API and let our community decide what clients need to be built (and build them). This has resulted in a range of client software suitable for different situations and preferences:
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/ https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/
This includes web-based interfaces for getting certificates from Let's Encrypt (see the "Browser" section of the client options document). Hopefully one of these will work well for you.
- Achshar 10y agoI was on that very page a few weeks ago. I used ZeroSSL to generate my last cert. It works great! And I understand your strategy, providing an API and letting the community work over is the absolute best you can do with the resources you have. My frustration was as a newbie fiddling with command line tools. Being completely lost. I had to read up for two straight days. Then give up for a few months. Return back, read up for two days again, discover ZeroSSL and finally have my cert. Barrier to entry was very high. Now that I'm in, it's a lot better.