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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/rsc/letsencrypt/README b/vendor/github.com/rsc/letsencrypt/README index 98a875f37..575ae16a8 100644 --- a/vendor/github.com/rsc/letsencrypt/README +++ b/vendor/github.com/rsc/letsencrypt/README @@ -7,6 +7,31 @@ servers that can prove control over the given domain's DNS records or the servers pointed at by those records. +Warning + +Like any other random code you find on the internet, this package should not +be relied upon in important, production systems without thorough testing to +ensure that it meets your needs. + +In the long term you should be using +https://golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert instead of this package. Send +improvements there, not here. + +This is a package that I wrote for my own personal web sites (swtch.com, +rsc.io) in a hurry when my paid-for SSL certificate was expiring. It has no +tests, has barely been used, and there is some anecdotal evidence that it +does not properly renew certificates in a timely fashion, so servers that +run for more than 3 months may run into trouble. I don't run this code +anymore: to simplify maintenance, I moved the sites off of Ubuntu VMs and +onto Google App Engine, configured with inexpensive long-term certificates +purchased from cheapsslsecurity.com. + +This package was interesting primarily as an example of how simple the API +for using LetsEncrypt.org could be made, in contrast to the low-level +implementations that existed at the time. In that respect, it helped inform +the design of the golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert package. + + Quick Start A complete HTTP/HTTPS web server using TLS certificates from |