10 Years of Let's Encrypt

Re:10 Years of Let's Encrypt by nvader on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:52PM (#46210490)

Wow, this might be the push I needed to automate certificate renewal on my personal website [0].

Manually clicking `make renew-cert` was barely tolerable every quarter, but if I have to do it twice as frequently I may as well ask an LLM to figure it out on my behalf.

[0]: https://danverbraganza.com

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Re:10 Years of Let's Encrypt by bifurcation on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:19PM (#46210805)

Heh, as I was saying about shorter lifetimes encouraging automation...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210786

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Re:10 Years of Let's Encrypt by nvader on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:54PM (#46211253)

Yep, it's just the push I needed to get off my seat ;)

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Re:10 Years of Let's Encrypt by dylan604 on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:20PM (#46210821)

And that is the very point of the short life span. One year certs had the potential of the person responsible for the cert no longer being the same person at time of renewal. Making it easy to automate so that it was just a cron task meant it didn't matter how often the person responsible changed.

Your pain and intolerance to that button push proves their intent.

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