Wordfence blog (free ssl in summer 2015)

Hi Clint,

The service mentioned offering the free SSL certs is called Let’s Encrypt. Their website is showing quarter 4 of 2015 now. Looks like the rollout was pushed back.

https://letsencrypt.org

-Brian

Thanks Brian,
In a comment at the URL I referenced above Mark mentioned:

mark November 19, 2014 at 1:36 pm ? Reply
…..This protocol will let folks like us, other developers and hosting providers create applications that automatically install your SSL certificate for you with only a few clicks.

So the impact of this program is not just that SSL will be free, but that it will become very easy to activate it, including on shared hosting plans.

Does Wordfence plan on having the Wordfence plugin install this SSL certificate as referenced above in Marks comment response?

At a minimum, I would like to be able to login securely into my wordpress sites rather than having my password/username sent as plain text. My current understanding is that I have 3 options to do that. The option reference above, or utilizing hostgators shared SSL certificate along with the plugin “WordPress HTTPS (SSL)”, or digest authentication through the use of a plugin such as “HTTP Digest Authentication”.

Thanks again for all your help,
Clint

At this point any discussion is speculation until Let’s Encrypt moves forward.
When and if they move forward we’ll begin working on things in that arena.

tim

Good news: I’m excited to let you know that my domain was whitelisted by Let’s Encrypt, and I can now use an ACME client to obtain a certificate for it. However, I haven’t yet figured out the instructions to actually get the cert and add it. Best I can figure, first I need to install Git. By chance, could you tell me how to do it?

@ds2014: Great! It’s nice to hear that the project is moving forward, though I see it is still in a limited beta. Unfortunately, we can’t help with installation process. But, letsencrypt.org does have a community page where someone may be able to help, here:
https://community.letsencrypt.org/

-Matt R

Merci beaucoup! Thanks for the link to the LetsEncrypt community page.