[BlueOnyx:18743] Re: SSL Certificates (via Let's Encrypt) - available for 5209R

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I agree

Great for playing around and securing up personal stuff but for one of 
my clients... no I don't think so.

The lack of warranty is the part that has me worried.

Even the cheap 9.99 certs have some type of warranty.

I haven't looked at "Let's" to see if they offer a warranty but then 
again why should they, they are offering them for free

> On 12/5/2015 9:15 PM, Michael Stauber wrote:
>> The BlueOnyx 5209R version of base-ssl now supports generation and
>> auto-renewal of the free "Let's Encrypt!" SSL certificates through the GUI.
> After looking through this thread and the Let's Encrypt website, I have
> mixed feelings on this.
>
> On one hand, we have a CA offering free certificates.  And that's neat.
>    Everybody seems to like free.   Heck, I love a good deal.
>
> On the other hand, it seems like this has a long way to go in order to
> make it practical for a business use.  This falls in line with my
> feelings toward repurposing that old Cobalt RaQ to run a "modern" OS and
> maybe kludge BlueOnyx onto it.   Can it be made to work?  Yeah,
> probably.  With enough effort almost anything is possible.     But is it
> worth it?   It's hard for me to make a business case for it.
>
> Now, if you're a hobbyist, and you think it's fun to tinker with stuff,
> then go for it.  More power to you.   But for me, I think I'll continue
> to spend a few bucks on a certificate that I don't have to renew every
> X-days or run some sort of add-on software to support it.
>
> If I can't afford a few bucks for a certificate that means one of two
> things.  Either (a) it's a hobby project and the self-signed certificate
> that is no less secure will do just fine or (b) I really need to
> re-evaluate my business, because if I can't afford an inexpensive SSL
> cert I'm really doing something wrong!
>
> This is just my opinion, based on a business case, and reasonable people
> have been known to disagree with matters of opinion.
>