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title: Sporting Let's Encrypt certificate
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date: 2015-11-17 09:51:25
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tags: [tls, letsencrypt]
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[Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) is a soon to be publicly
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available service to provide TLS certificates for free and in automated
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fashion. I'm helping them test their systems by participating in the
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[beta programme](https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/12/public-beta-timing.html).
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Because of that this site is now sporting, publicly recognizable
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certificate from Let's Encrypt. Yay ! The work they are doing I believe
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is of much importance. Lack of easy path for getting TLS certificate was
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a major hurdle for the most of the website owners, otherwise keen on
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getting their traffic encrypted. This, in turn, is important for two
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reasons. Not allowing the content you are viewing on the internet to be
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snooped at, not leaking you private data is one thing. Other, less
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known, but as much important, is countering the ability of injecting any
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malicious code/data into the responses from the servers you got and in
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turn preventing lots of man in the middle attacks. Hopefully, when Let's
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Encrypt becomes publicly available we would be on the path to much more
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friendly internet for all.
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