letsencrypt VS lego

This seems to be not implemented in certbot, yet: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/6566

If you do go with NPM or Traefik, under the covers it's using certbot to request/renew your certificates through Let's Encrypt using the DNS-01 challenge, meaning you can get wildcard certs and don't have to futz around with port forwards. Again I'd think Caddy has similar functionality, I just have not used it personally. Raw NGINX you probably don't want to try out yet considering it requires manually doing the configs

certbot won't be missed. The code quality is pretty poor.

https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues 5000 bugs and it most of it can be replaced by much smaller tools

Here’s a good code reference (Python and rust): https://github.com/certbot/certbot

I am trying to migrate off of Linux and back to FreeBSD, but I hit a problem today. The Let's Encrypt Certbot is not installing. A bit surprising, given how important it is. So I thought I would notify the community Here is my bug report. https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/9394

Last release: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/releases (on 28th August 2022 = 1.29.0)

Right? It’s so ridiculous how you’re supposed to use Snap to install certbot. The (well, one of..) GitHub discussion is just beyond the pale:

https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/8345#issuecomment-...

It goes way beyond, since Let's Encrypt influence the ecosystem a lot and the standards that are used.

If you use Let's Encrypt, you are likely using Certbot, which means that everybody uses a tool that a central authority strongly recommends to you.

I wonder how they generate the key, for example, it may be using secp256r1: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/blob/5c111d0bd1206d864d7c...

# nginx-ingress-https.conf events { } http { include mime.types; server { listen 443 ssl; listen [::]:443 ssl; server_name sg.horlick.me; ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/sg.horlick.me/fullchain.pem; ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/sg.horlick.me/privkey.pem; # taken from https://github.com/certbot/certbot/blob/master/certbot-nginx/certbot_nginx/_internal/tls_configs/options-ssl-nginx.conf ssl_session_cache shared:le_nginx_SSL:10m; ssl_session_timeout 1440m; ssl_session_tickets off; ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; ssl_prefer_server_ciphers off; ssl_ciphers "ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384"; ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem; sendfile on; tcp_nopush on; tcp_nodelay on; location / { proxy_pass http://host.docker.internal:9090/; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Port $server_port; } } }

Self contained but hardly a tiny supply chain attack surface: https://github.com/go-acme/lego/blob/master/go.sum

This ACME client looks promising, but I haven’t tried it yet: https://github.com/go-acme/lego

My favorite method of obtaining certificates is with lets encrypt and LEGO

Caddy where possible, and acme.sh or lego where not.

Depend on host's capability... - lego - dehydrated - caddy - in case it already works as a web server, it will automatically issue and renew certs

u/gregtwallace maybe in the short term until you write your own, you could provide a hook into one of the many ACME client implementations which do DNS-01 and support the majority of major DNS provider APIs out of the box? That would make your (really great!) project much more widely usable.