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=== Certificate Automation tooling for Let's Encrypt ===
=== Certificate Automation tooling for Let's Encrypt ===
* Mozilla Advisor: JC Jones and Richard Barnes
* Mozilla Advisor: [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/jcjones/ J.C. Jones] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/rbarnes/ Richard Barnes]
* Difficulty: medium
* Difficulty: medium
* Language: English
* Language: English
Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority that aims to streamline the issuance and management of X.509 Certificates. The goal of this project is to build server-side tools that automate the generation of certificate and configuration of HTTPS server, using Let's Encrypt's ACME protocol.
[https://letsencrypt.org/ Let's Encrypt] is a certificate authority that aims to streamline the issuance and management of X.509 Certificates, the authentication mechanism behind Transport Layer Security (TLS). Today, Let's Encrypt provides a tool to manipulate server configuration files to enable TLS. This project would be to write a module or patch for a popular web server such that it natively speaks the [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-barnes-acme/ ACME protocol for Certificate Management].


== FAQ ==
== FAQ ==
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