uacme VS letsencrypt

Compare uacme vs letsencrypt and see what are their differences.

letsencrypt

Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol. (by certbot)
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uacme letsencrypt
6 21
409 30,724
- 0.5%
5.5 8.9
about 1 month ago 5 days ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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uacme

Posts with mentions or reviews of uacme. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-21.

letsencrypt

Posts with mentions or reviews of letsencrypt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-20.
  • OpenSpeedTest in docker through DSM Reverse Proxy - incorrect upload speeds
    2 projects | /r/synology | 20 Jan 2023
    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
  • Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2022
    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

  • Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2022
    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-...

  • Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 May 2022
    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...

  • mureq: single-file, zero-dependency replacement for the Requests http library
    3 projects | /r/Python | 17 Jan 2022
    Put another way, mureq should be able to replace Requests in complex applications, as long as those applications use HTTP in relatively simple ways. For example, I wrote a proof-of-concept PR for replacing Requests with mureq in certbot.
  • My first golang home project
    3 projects | /r/golang | 1 Sep 2021
    The agent will find virtual hosts of a web server and after that you will be able to secure your site with a certificate. The agent can issue a Let's Encrypt certificate, or you can upload your own certificate (with the .pem extension). The agent will configure the web server configs and install the certificate. The functionality is very similar to the functionality of the certbot (https://github.com/certbot/certbot), but the service allows you to secure the site through the UI in a few clicks. Currently, only apache web server is supported.
  • Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2021
    Do you realize that "HN" isn't one single monolithic entity that needs to achieve 100% consistency in its views? Like if one person here says "use existing libraries" but then a different person says "don't use this existing library", that doesn't actually mean that someone was being hypocritical.

    You might also consider that not all advice (especially when presented in an extremely limited form like a comment box on a website) should be interpreted as black or white, full compliance or complete rejection, but might better be treated as a general guideline or recommendation and that standard disclaimers or tradeoffs ought to be implied.

    Certbot is a bad example of "use existing libraries and never reinvent the wheel" because it pulls in soooo many unrelated things. These are certbot's python dependencies: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/blob/master/tools/require...

    Almost 200 different dependencies. Most of them to handle some niche use-case that are likely not what a given user needs. For some people certbot, with its downsides still might be the best solution. For others, there might be a more appropriate solution that still avoids reinventing the wheel. Eg, I prefer to use a single Go library to do ACME stuff or to just use Traefik or Caddy or some other reverse proxy/load balancer that supports ACME transparently without pulling in a ton of extra packages that aren't relevant to me. But sometimes, cerbot is still the simplest solution, so I use that. I still reserve the right to wish that it had fewer dependencies.

  • How To Configure NGINX With SSL and HTTP/2
    4 projects | dev.to | 11 May 2021
    Thanks to open-source tools like Certbot, installing a free certificate is dead easy. Head over to https://certbot.eff.org/ link. Now select the software and system that powers your server.
  • is it OK to use Free SSL/TLS Certificates - Let's Encrypt ?
    2 projects | /r/Wordpress | 31 Mar 2021
    Actually it is Open Source (I'd say "Free Software" but they're the same thing). The software that makes the CA work, Boulder, is here: https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder and the end user software to get certificates which now called CertBot but was once just named "letsencrypt" is here: https://github.com/certbot/certbot
  • Ask HN: Cheapest/ easiest way to host a static site
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2021
    Cool! There's also certbot[0] and lego[1] which can do ACME-DNS with a range of providers beside CF. You could also do tls-alpn, which allows you to do do the challenger encrypted on another port. It's primarily worth considering for those issuing certs for non-public domains that shouldn't be broadcasted via public DNS.

    [0]: https://github.com/certbot/certbot

What are some alternatives?

When comparing uacme and letsencrypt you can also consider the following projects:

acme.sh - A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol

lego - Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go

dehydrated - letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script – just add water

Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init

dehydrated-bigip-ansible - Ansible based hooks for dehydrated to enable ACME certificate automation for F5 BIG-IP systems

SaltStack - Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here:

supervisor - Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)

cloudinit - Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization

pyinfra - pyinfra automates infrastructure using Python. It’s fast and scales from one server to thousands. Great for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.

Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.

BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.