[Tor2web-talk] Fwd: Wildcard Certificate for ACME protocol / Letsencrypt project?

[Virgil Griffith]

Highly support this.  Goodluck naif!

-V

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists <
lists at infosecurity.ch> wrote:

>  FYI
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------  Subject: Wildcard Certificate for
> ACME protocol / Letsencrypt project?  Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 11:54:02
> +0100  From: Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists <lists at infosecurity.ch>
> <lists at infosecurity.ch>  To: acme at ietf.org
>
> Hi,
>
> are there plan or has been already been defined specs to manage wildcard
> certificates (ie: *.domain.TLD) with ACME protocol and Letsencrypt CA
> project?
>
> I ask this because at Tor2web project [1][2][3] we use Wildcard
> certificates to enable internet access to Tor's Hidden Services
> resources (and soon i2p too).
>
> One of the problem in making Tor2web network to grow up in numbers is
> related to the "costs" of wildcard certificates.
>
> With the upcoming Letsencrypt free-automated-CA-revolution, this could
> change the economic effort required to startup and run a Tor2web node by
> a volounteer.
>
> But to do that, it would be required to issue wildcard certificate
> within the automated CA of letsencrypt.
>
> If it will be possible to have Wildcard certificate, we could automate
> the issuing/setup process within Tor2web software, making it extremely
> easy and cost effective to set it up.
>
>
> [1] http://logioshermes.org/home/projects-technologies/tor2web/
> [2] https://tor2web.org
> [3] https://github.com/globaleaks/Tor2web-3.0/wiki
>
>
> --
> Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
> HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rightshttp://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org -https://ahmia.fi
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