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Be careful with the Let’s Encrypt’s deployment automation

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I just noticed an error that had gone unseen: this very site was serving another site’s HTTPS certificate. I started digging what had gone wrong and noticed that EFF’s Certbot had touched the Apache configurations of this site even though I deployed a cert for another site. It had overwritten the configuration and even added more lines to … [Read more…]

The problem with Let’s Encrypt (or someone’s)

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Let’s Encrypt gives you free DV certificates via easy to use, automated process. Just install their script, or choose one from the gazillion of custom ones, and you’re good to go with a strong encryption to your website and automatic renewals. One thing that really bothers me when people say that Let’s Encrypt is the … [Read more…]