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Post of the month: apr 2018

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Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificates On FreeBSD With BIND DNS Validation

Large browser vendors have quite some time ago established model of "trusted" web sites based on SSL certificates signed by "trusted" CAs. This trend increasingly spreads to other applications and protocols. This article gives exact steps needed for obtaining Let's Encrypt's wildcard certificates from FreeBSD host, using DNS validation through dynamic updates of a BIND server's zones, using EFF's ACME client, certbot.