This letter was originally published in our 2024 Annual Report.
The past year at ISRG has been a great one and I couldn’t be more proud of our staff, community, funders, and other partners that made it happen. Let’s Encrypt continues to thrive, serving more websites around the world than ever before with excellent security and stability. Our understanding of what it will take to make more privacy-preserving metrics more mainstream via our Divvi Up project is evolving in important ways.
You can use DNS challenge to renew your certificates without opening ports! Have a look at acme.sh for automation.
Oh, awesome! I thought that was a manual process, so I’ve been using the regular method.
Looks like I have a new project for this weekend. My DNS is currently hosted at Cloudflare, so this should be pretty straightforward.
certbot has modules for most DNS providers as well.