> here's not even a hint that their system works in OSes other than Linux.
> And there's absolutely nothing there to suggest it supports Windows/IIS.
Their "system" is an API for issuing certificates. There's nothing platform specific about that.
> right now the website conflates the two badly.
From https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/: You’re welcome to use any compatible client, but we only provide instructions for using the client that we provide.
So what part of this is going out of beta? The protocol, the CA, or the client?
Now I'm just confused.
But I still say: if their mission is to make it as easy as possible to install a SSL cert on any website, as long as they don't have any (apparent) support for Windows/IIS, they're a long, long, long way away from fulfilling that mission and probably shouldn't be leaving beta.
> And there's absolutely nothing there to suggest it supports Windows/IIS.
Their "system" is an API for issuing certificates. There's nothing platform specific about that.
> right now the website conflates the two badly.
From https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/: You’re welcome to use any compatible client, but we only provide instructions for using the client that we provide.
Edit: This is the protocol they use: https://github.com/letsencrypt/acme-spec
I found the link here: https://letsencrypt.org/how-it-works/