From the course: SSL Certificates for Web Developers
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Certbot - SSL Tutorial
From the course: SSL Certificates for Web Developers
Certbot
- [Instructor] In this chapter, we're going to learn to install SSL certificates using Let's Encrypt. If you visit the Let's Encrypt website, they recommend that you do that using something called Certbot. Certbot is a separate project from Let's Encrypt. It's developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, and it's a client for Let's Encrypt that's written in the Python programming language using something called the ACME protocol, ACME stands for Automatic Certificate Management Environment. So, you have three different groups that are all working together to make SSL certificates easier. Let's Encrypt provides free certificates. The group that developed the ACME protocol makes it easy to manage certificates. And then you have the EFF, which has created the Certbot client which uses that ACME protocol to issue Let's Encrypt certificates. To see how it is easier, let's look at an overview of a traditional SSL certificate installation. We'll go into this more in depth in the…
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