Let's Encrypt takes free "wildcard" certificates live
https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2018/03/lets-encrypt-takes-free-wildcard-certificates-live/
In July of 2017, the nonprofit certificate authority Let's
Encrypt promised to deliver something that would put secure
websites and Web applications within reach of any Internet
user: free "wildcard" certificates to enable secure HTTP
connections for entire domains. Today, Let's Encrypt took that
promised service live, in addition to a new version of the
Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol,
an interface that can be used by a variety of client software
packages to automate verification of certificate requests.
ACME version 2 "has gone through the IETF standards process,"
said Josh Aas, executive director of the Internet Security
Research Group (ISRG), the group behind Let's Encrypt, in a
blog post on the release. ACME v2 is currently a draft
Internet Engineering Task Force standard, so it may not yet be
in its final form. But the current version is the result of
significant feedback from the industry. And its use is
required to obtain wildcard certificates.
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