Re:Early Impacts of Let's Encrypt
by nailer on Saturday February 20, 2016 @03:34PM
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Agreed a thousand percent, but there are services that offer easy installs onto cloud providers that do know your private key - that's how they get it onto your ELB or Heroku.
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If you can restrict the service to a subdomain, there are alternatives like the SAN extension that allow those third parties to avoid handling your private key at a small extra cost.
I'm having trouble understanding your comment. SANs are mandatory (current browsers don't even use CNs), how would SANs specifically prevent this? The endpoint where your terminating your traffic obviously must have the private key to decrypt it.