[Info-vax] WASD Certificate Management Environment

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Hi.

I do not know much about certificare management, but just saw this
posted on the WASD mailing list. FWIW.

Jan-Erik.

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With TLS (SSL) increasingly the recommended transport for web 
communicationand user agents more demanding with the certification of that 
communication the day of the self-signed X.509 certificate is pretty-much 
past.
Historically, the costs of certification have been measured in time and 
effort, ownership verification, and often coin of the realm, a particular 
consideration for the hobbyist.  Let's Encrypt is intended to address these.

   "The objective ... is to make it possible to set up an HTTPS server
    and have it automatically obtain a browser-trusted certificate,
    without any human intervention [and at no cost].  This is accomplished
    by running a certificate management agent on the web server."

   06 July 2017 - "securing 47 million domains"

   28 June 2017 - "issued more than 100,000,000 certificates"

   https://letsencrypt.org/docs/faq/
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Encrypt

The WASD Certificate Management Environment (wCME) is such an agent.

   https://wasd.vsm.com.au/wasd_root/src/wcme/readmore.html

Available from the usual location.

   https://wasd.vsm.com.au/wasd/

That service is secured using a Let's Encrypt issued and wCME managed 
certificate.  Another is DECUServe (e.g. https://eisner.decus.org).

wCME is also suitable for use with VMS Apache.

Please note this is dot-point zero of version one!

Regards, Mark.