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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by pabs3 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:41PM (#26085509)
If anything TLS has gotten easier since Lets Encrypt came along. You just install one of the clients for it, configure a domain and periodic renewal and you're done.
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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by brigandish on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:31AM (#26086791)
For a public facing computer, yes, for a private one, not so much[1].

I use mkcert[2] for this but it's still fiddly.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/

[2] https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by rys on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:30AM (#26087157)
I bought a domain to use for my home network instead. I have LE issue a cert for it via DNS challenge and use it liberally with hosts on my LAN, with the excellent benefit that I don’t need to give clients a new CA I invented.
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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by pwdisswordfish6 on Monday February 22, 2021 @11:22PM (#26233793)
It's not easier than HTTP sans TLS, which is the point that was being made.
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