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New README for Let's Encrypt
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The Chocolate project to implement sweet automatic encryption for webservers.
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This is the Let's Encrypt Agent DEVELOPER PREVIEW repository.
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There are two portions to the Chocolate protocol.
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DO NOT RUN THIS CODE ON A PRODUCTION WEBSERVER. IT WILL INSTALL CERTIFICATES
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SIGNED BY A TEST CA, AND WILL CAUSE CERT WARNINGS FOR USERS.
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trustify/ contains code that can be run on any webserver (eventually,
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email, XMPP and other SSL-securable servers too); it is used to automatically
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request and install a CA-signed certificate for that server's public names.
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This code intended for testing, demonstration, and integration engineering
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with OSes and hosting platforms.
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server-ca/ contains a reference implementation for CAs to receive requests for
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certs, set challenges for the requesting servers to prove that they really
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control the names, and issue certificates.
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Debian dependencies:
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build deps:
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swig
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protobuf-compiler
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python-dev
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others:
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gnutls-bin # for make cert requests
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python-protobuf
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python-dialog
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hashcash
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Debian packaging work will continue in the separate "debian" branch of this
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repo.
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alternative method for client webservers to request certificates from a server
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CA. Lets Encrypt does not plan to speak this protocol, though some of the
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things here may be of future use.
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Notes on this code:
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The Chocolate project to implement sweet automatic encryption for webservers.
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There are two portions to the Chocolate protocol.
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trustify/ contains code that can be run on any webserver (eventually,
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email, XMPP and other SSL-securable servers too); it is used to automatically
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request and install a CA-signed certificate for that server's public names.
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server-ca/ contains a reference implementation for CAs to receive requests for
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certs, set challenges for the requesting servers to prove that they really
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control the names, and issue certificates.
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Debian dependencies:
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build deps:
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swig
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protobuf-compiler
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python-dev
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others:
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gnutls-bin # for make cert requests
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python-protobuf
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python-dialog
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hashcash
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