Hi

Let's encrypt is a little bit weird to use. Have to stop jenkins in order to 
get port 80 ... and it does not support amazon linux welll.

Olaf

> Am 09.02.2016 um 19:07 schrieb Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]>:
> 
> Thanks for starting on this, Olaf.
> 
> Andres Purtell is VP right now, but I don't think we need to deal with any of
> the commercial CAs, nor get INFRA, Ross or ASF budget into this. I'd recommend
> to use EFF "Let’s Encrypt" initiative [1] to get the SSL certificate for free 
> and
> be done with it. Check [2] for more info
> 
> [1]    https://letsencrypt.org/
> [2]    
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/lets-encrypt-project-comes-fruition-2015-review
> 
> I will comment on the INFRA ticket
>  Cos
> 
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 06:43PM, Olaf Flebbe wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> I asked INFRA wether it is possible to  get a SSL Certificate for our CI.
>> 
>> This is in my opinion necessary to protect the credentials of the CI against
>> random hackers. (I accidentially used the CI on a open Wifi at FOSDEM,
>> oops).
>> 
>> Please see INFRA-11187 .Point is that bigtop VP (cos?, rvs?) has to talk
>> with Apache President (currently Ross Gardler) about getting the cost of
>> this cert budgeted.
>> 
>> Unsure how to proceed:
>> 
>> Other possibilities could be that we find a sponsor for that.
>> 
>> Other possibilities which comes in my mind now is using the free Let's
>> Encrypt!  https://letsencrypt.org certificates . I do not know if we can use
>> it.
>> 
>> Least possibility to use a private (snakeoil) certificate, at least the
>> traffic is crypted, but on the other side users get an ugly warning page.
>> 
>> What do you think?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Olaf
> 
> 

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