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Certbot usability case study: Making it easier to get HTTPS certificates

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    Eric_the_Cerise
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    Personal experience. I've installed SSL/TLS certificates in the Dark Ages before CertBot, and I have used CertBot to install them since ... and yeah, it's night-and-day. Awesome tool. Thank you,...

    Personal experience. I've installed SSL/TLS certificates in the Dark Ages before CertBot, and I have used CertBot to install them since ... and yeah, it's night-and-day.

    Awesome tool. Thank you, EFF — and thank you, LetsEncrypt.org, which gave us free certs to install (y'all remember back when they used to cost more than the web hosting provider that actually ran your website?).

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    1. ubergeek
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      Agreed. The free certs alone were a night-day change. I need to get more involved, and write handlers for postfix, dovecot, and other commonly secured systems that use TLS. Right now, I soft link...

      Agreed. The free certs alone were a night-day change.

      I need to get more involved, and write handlers for postfix, dovecot, and other commonly secured systems that use TLS. Right now, I soft link certs. But it could be more user friendly.