"Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority: It’s free, automated, and open."[1]
The idea would be to integrate the openSUSE/SLE support into the Let's Encrypt Client.
"The Let's Encrypt Client is a tool to automatically receive and install X.509 certificates to<br> enable TLS on servers. The client will interoperate with the Let's Encrypt CA which will be<br> issuing browser-trusted certificates for free."[2]
Let's Encrypt uses the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol[3]<br> to distribute certificates easily. Part of this project idea would be to understand the protocol<br> in detail.
From the Let's Encrypt blog[4]:
Nov 12, 2015 Public Beta: December 3, 2015 Let’s Encrypt will enter Public Beta on December 3rd, 2015. Once we’ve entered Public Beta our systems will be open to anyone who would like to request a certificate.
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about 8 years ago by Jedibeeftrix | Reply
this would be an immensely valuable project for leap users. setting up an owncloud (or similar) server is trivial. enabling https is an ugly and painful process right now. this would help greatly.
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about 8 years ago by lnussel | Reply
http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a89f4ed6 https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/list-of-client-implementations/2103 Might be worth to look at e.g. https://github.com/lukas2511/letsencrypt.sh and do a clean and small C implementation
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almost 8 years ago by bmwiedemann | Reply
I had good success with https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny and my helper /suse/bwiedemann/Export/contrib/Makefile
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about 6 years ago by dmolkentin | Reply
It's done. SLE/openSUSE 15 will have letsencrypt support through dehydrated, a client that comes with less baggage than the official one, as well as a bunch of useful enabler scripts.
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