Not even going offtopic since Gophernicus - The Most Awesome(tm) gopher server \o/ - actually supports TLS and the only existing TLS-enabled gopher server (gophers://gophernicus.org:7070/) runs on a free Let's Encrypt certificate.
I was really against the whole thing until start of this year when my existing certs were due to renewal. So being slightly autistic I wrote down the steps to renew a cert between the traditional way vs. up and coming Let's Encrypt that I hated.
That was not even a competition... and yes, it's fully scritable - I've got a simple bash script running form /etc/cron.monthly/ to renew the cert every two months (they're valid for three). As long as Let's Encrypt is operational I never ever have to do anything to renew. Nada.
- Kim
I have looked at Let's Encrypt in the past. There is quite a bit of smack talk floating around vis-a-vis this service particularly because it is free. Every single free cert I have seen in the last 20 years eventually shut down due to misuse by idiots. I guess I'll grab one while it is still around...
Is renewing the LE cert scriptable or is this just something that will need a calendar entry and a reminder?
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Leveck
16. Sep 2017 02:38 by
irl@fsfe.org:
Hi,
On 16/09/17 05:47, Stephen Kellat wrote:RFC 4217 comes to mind at this point & I wonder if letsencrypt.org supports that perchance.
By putting some records into the DNS, yes it is possible to have a cert
issued for a domain name that will then work for any service, including
FTPS or even some form of Gopher/TLS if such a thing exists.
Personally I've used the certs for mail servers, FTP servers, XMPP
servers as well as many many web servers.
Thanks,
Iain.
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