Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates)

[karl@aspodata.se]

Karl:
> Michael Orilitzky:

Sorry, I mistyped, it should be: Peter Humphrey

> ...
> > * The LetsEncrypt certificates expire after three months, as opposed 
> >   to 10+ years for a self-signed certificate. You're supposed to 
> >   automate this... by running a script as root that takes input from 
> >   the web? I'd rather not do that.
> 
> You can run most part of it as an unpriviliged user, here is my crontab:
> 0 0     1 * *   acme    /usr/local/sbin/acme_update.sh
> 10 0    1 * *   root    cat /etc/acme-tiny/domain.key /var/acme-tiny/signed_chain.crt  > /etc/lighttpd/server.pem
> 20 0    1 * *   root    /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
> 
> One could add a check to make sure that the downloaded crt is sensible.
> 
> > * LetsEncrypt verifies your identity over plain HTTP (like every other 
> >   commercial CA), so it's all security theater in the first place.
> ...
> 
> Ack.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar