I think this is great, in concept. My experience with letsencrypt (which was quite good, FWIW) is that the project delivered a contained and trusted environment to sync and deliver new keys and retrieve signed certificates. I'll be interested to see what simplification is presented, I don't think we want to get into the business of delivering container-style distributions of httpd.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > At LinuxCon I spoke with the director of the LetsEncrypt project - whose > business card I haven't yet found in unpacking - and he asked whether > the httpd project would be interested in LetsEncrypt being "in" httpd. > That is, when one installs httpd, letsencrypt would just be a config > option. (I have no idea how this would actually work, but that's beside > the point really.) > > Is this something that we'd be interested in, if it were contributed? I > note that their software is under the Apache License, so there shouldn't > be any difficulty on that front. > > Naturally, I told him that the next step was to get on this mailing list > and talk about implementation details, and he said he'd do that. So that > should be coming in the next week, as soon as I find his business card > and send him the subscribe info and so on. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >
