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Just want to say, I'm not affiliated with LE, but I think it makes a lot of sense to donate to them if you use their services regularly. From my own use case,

Just want to say, I'm not affiliated with LE, but I think it makes a lot of sense to donate to them if you use their services regularly. From my own use case, integrating TLS for my site via LE and the autocert package in Go has been seamless. It's completely free (if you want it to be), and it looks like I won't have to worry about renewing certs anymore. The service LE is providing is amazing. Just thinking of the millions of dollars they're collectively saving everyone, yearly, is pretty crazy. If anyone at LE reads this, thank you for your work!

johnnycarcin 10y ago
Yes! At my job I've setup a per-paycheck donation to LE because they have saved me so much time (apache, nginx and caddy automagic SSL) and in the long run it'll probably still be cheaper than buying one of the SSL certs from the other companies.
- notyourwork 10y ago
  It sounds like your company should be the ones donating! Kudos to you either way and I agree, with how easy this has become compared to other solutions I have no problem donating to them.
  - johnnycarcin 10y ago
    That's the great part, my company matches my donation!
- rebelidealist 10y ago
  Our company made a small donation of $25 per month. https://letsencrypt.org/donate/ https://letsencrypt.org/donate/ It is a small token of how much time they saved us from setting up ssl for our clients. These small monthly donations can add up help them thrive in the future.
  - mholt 10y ago
    That's wonderful! How does your company write that off? Is it a business expense? I know a lot of companies don't really care to "donate" for various reasons, am wondering why your company is so willing when it is not required.
    - StavrosK 10y ago
      Maybe LE should set up subscriptions for some small service (priority support?), just to give companies a deductible reason to donate.
      - tajen 10y ago
        This. Everything is easier with an invoice; Accountants and tax inspectors are always suspicious about donations with only an email as a confirmation. It's a point patio11 already made in the past about OSS.
gog 10y ago
Which Go package do you use?
- zachgersh 10y ago
  You can probably get pretty far with the package written by Russ Cox: https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt
  - sztanpet 10y ago
    No, that is a bad idea, see: https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt/issues/15#issuecomment-252427783 https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt/issues/15#issuecomment-25...
- bradfitz 10y ago
  He said "autocert", which is https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert
- beeker87 10y ago
  Sorry just saw this, it's the autocert package bradfitz linked to.
dvko 10y ago
I fully agree, which is why I set up a recurring donation for what I would otherwise pay to some commercial certificate authority. LetsEncrypt is doing great work! What's crazy to me is that their crowdfunding campaign [1] has only raised $100K so far, considering what they're doing. 1: https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/make-a-more-secure-web-with-let-s-encrypt https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/make-a-more...

johnnycarcin 10y ago

Yes! At my job I've setup a per-paycheck donation to LE because they have saved me so much time (apache, nginx and caddy automagic SSL) and in the long run it'll probably still be cheaper than buying one of the SSL certs from the other companies.

notyourwork 10y ago
It sounds like your company should be the ones donating! Kudos to you either way and I agree, with how easy this has become compared to other solutions I have no problem donating to them.
- johnnycarcin 10y ago
  That's the great part, my company matches my donation!
rebelidealist 10y ago
Our company made a small donation of $25 per month. https://letsencrypt.org/donate/ https://letsencrypt.org/donate/ It is a small token of how much time they saved us from setting up ssl for our clients. These small monthly donations can add up help them thrive in the future.
- mholt 10y ago
  That's wonderful! How does your company write that off? Is it a business expense? I know a lot of companies don't really care to "donate" for various reasons, am wondering why your company is so willing when it is not required.
  - StavrosK 10y ago
    Maybe LE should set up subscriptions for some small service (priority support?), just to give companies a deductible reason to donate.
    - tajen 10y ago
      This. Everything is easier with an invoice; Accountants and tax inspectors are always suspicious about donations with only an email as a confirmation. It's a point patio11 already made in the past about OSS.

gog 10y ago

Which Go package do you use?

zachgersh 10y ago
You can probably get pretty far with the package written by Russ Cox: https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt
- sztanpet 10y ago
  No, that is a bad idea, see: https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt/issues/15#issuecomment-252427783 https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt/issues/15#issuecomment-25...
bradfitz 10y ago
He said "autocert", which is https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert
beeker87 10y ago
Sorry just saw this, it's the autocert package bradfitz linked to.

dvko 10y ago

I fully agree, which is why I set up a recurring donation for what I would otherwise pay to some commercial certificate authority. LetsEncrypt is doing great work! What's crazy to me is that their crowdfunding campaign [1] has only raised $100K so far, considering what they're doing. 1: https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/make-a-more-secure-web-with-let-s-encrypt https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/make-a-more...