A Note from our Executive Director
letsencrypt.org
This letter was originally published in our 2024 Annual Report. The past year at ISRG has been a great one and I couldn’t be more proud of our staff, community, funders, and other partners that made it happen. Let’s Encrypt continues to thrive, serving more websites around the world than ever before with excellent security and stability. Our understanding of what it will take to make more privacy-preserving metrics more mainstream via our Divvi Up project is evolving in important ways.
  • JaddedFauceet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    1 day ago

    What is the use case or benefit for the server admin?

    as a server admin I wouldn’t want to keep renewing my cert.

    can anyone help to explain?

    • frezikEnglish
      35·
      1 day ago

      Lets Encrypt certs tend to be renewed by a cronjob, anyway. The advantage is that if someone gets your cert without your knowledge, they have, at most, six days to make use of it.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
        47·
        22 hours ago

        That makes little sense. If they can get my certificate then I have different problems that ,a 6 day turnaround isn’t going to solve

        • frezikEnglish
          4·
          22 hours ago

          Presumably, you’ve patched up whatever hole let them in.

          • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
            33·
            14 hours ago

            … Seriously?

            If someone got a hold of your certificate that is the security equivalent of the entire company being on fire. If they got my certs they likely will have my credit cards, my birth certificate, and my youngest daughter.

            Thank God though that I can renew my certificates every 6 days, that will definitely help sole the problem.

              • Hawk@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
                2·
                6 hours ago

                I think the implication is the infiltrator would have a lot of access already.

            • Hawk@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
              1·
              6 hours ago

              Yeah but it’s just an extra layer. Why not, it’s automated and almost no-cost.

            • frazorth@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              8 hours ago

              Thats an interesting position.

              I dont keep my credit card information on the load balancer that holds my certs.

            • frezikEnglish
              4·
              13 hours ago

              OK. Whatever hypothetical we want to think about here, we still want our cert to be renewed.