# Let's Encypt Enters Public Beta

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 3, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993 "2015-12-03T18:10:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 19\
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**Author:** ![dwilson390](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/dwilson390/32/6948_2.png) [@dwilson390](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/dwilson390)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/1 "2015-12-03T18:10:21Z")

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I didn’t see a thread regarding this, so I though it would be good to create one place people could discuss it.

Let’s Encrypt has just exited Closed Beta (according to their [Status.io](http://Status.io) page). I’m now running the LE client for the first time (wish me luck 😛).

Very exciting to see this project progress at such a fast pace, looking forward to the coming months as we move towards a fully encrypted web!

**Edit:** Just in-case you can’t find them, here are Let’s Encrypts docs; [https://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/](https://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)

Woot!

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**Author:** ![scorpionzezz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@scorpionzezz](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/scorpionzezz)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/2 "2015-12-03T18:11:46Z")

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Just see in here

[http://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/history/55957a99e800baa4470002da](http://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/history/55957a99e800baa4470002da)

😃

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**Author:** ![NurdTurd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/nurdturd/32/259_2.png) [@NurdTurd](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/NurdTurd)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/3 "2015-12-03T18:12:51Z")

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Woohoo!!! Super excited!

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**Author:** ![scorpionzezz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@scorpionzezz](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/scorpionzezz)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/4 "2015-12-03T18:13:02Z")

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Now its on

> **[Entering Public Beta - Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates](https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html)**
>
> We’re happy to announce that Let’s Encrypt has entered Public Beta. Invitations are no longer needed in order to get free certificates from Let’s Encrypt.

🙂

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**Author:** ![dwilson390](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/dwilson390/32/6948_2.png) [@dwilson390](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/dwilson390)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/5 "2015-12-03T18:15:05Z")

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Just refreshed the LE homepage as well, great to to see;

> Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority:  
> It’s free, automated, and open.  
> In **Public Beta**

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**Author:** ![harder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/harder/32/182_2.png) [@harder](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/harder)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/6 "2015-12-03T18:17:34Z")

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Congrats!!! I’ll implement this right now on a site I’m running on my Raspberry Pi.

Update: The site went up shortly after at [https://www.haadaa.com/](https://www.haadaa.com/) – running on NGINX on a Raspberry Pi 2 and after tweaking the configuration a little got an A+ on SSL Labs [https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=haadaa.com&hideResults=on](https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=haadaa.com&hideResults=on) Very, very exciting – a tiny computer being part of something gigantic. Congratulations again, ISRG!!!

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**Author:** ![eva2000](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/eva2000/32/289_2.png) [@eva2000](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/eva2000)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/7 "2015-12-03T18:22:35Z")

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woohoo ! congrats Letsencrypt

lets watch the stats page for their numbers [https://letsencrypt.org/stats/](https://letsencrypt.org/stats/) 🙂

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**Author:** ![dwilson390](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/dwilson390/32/6948_2.png) [@dwilson390](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/dwilson390)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/8 "2015-12-03T18:26:30Z")

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Wasn’t even aware of this 😛. Thanks for the link!

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**Author:** ![NurdTurd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/nurdturd/32/259_2.png) [@NurdTurd](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/NurdTurd)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/9 "2015-12-03T18:27:04Z")

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Just to let you know I’m pretty sure they do not update in real time.

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**Author:** ![mikeskril](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@mikeskril](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mikeskril)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/10 "2015-12-03T18:27:41Z")

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Great! Thanks for all the hard work!

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**Author:** ![Leliana](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/leliana/32/1034_2.png) [@Leliana](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Leliana)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/11 "2015-12-03T18:28:08Z")

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OK, so Let’s Encypt is open, when does Let’s Encrypt open? :3

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**Author:** ![dwilson390](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/dwilson390/32/6948_2.png) [@dwilson390](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/dwilson390)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/12 "2015-12-03T18:28:23Z")

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Correct. The top of the page confirms this;

> These statistics are updated periodically.

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**Author:** ![NurdTurd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/nurdturd/32/259_2.png) [@NurdTurd](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/NurdTurd)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/13 "2015-12-03T18:29:02Z")

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It just did about 10 mins ago.

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**Author:** ![eva2000](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/eva2000/32/289_2.png) [@eva2000](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/eva2000)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/14 "2015-12-03T18:36:22Z")

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yeah still interesting to check out regularly 🙂

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**Author:** ![Leliana](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/leliana/32/1034_2.png) [@Leliana](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Leliana)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/15 "2015-12-03T18:39:47Z")

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Psst. It was a joke. Read the post title carefully.

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**Author:** ![Osiris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/839c29/32.png) [@Osiris](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Osiris)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/16 "2015-12-03T18:41:56Z")

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Seems to be working perfectly 😃 At least the `letsencrypt certonly --manual`-part… B/c I’m running Gentoo and I’m missing some Debian-based a2rmmod and a2somethingmod, the Apache module-thingy doesn’t work… 😤

Way to go Let’s Encrypt… Depend on custom distribution scripts for a relative important part of your product 😛 Perhaps I should open a separate topic for that rant 😉

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**Author:** ![NurdTurd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/nurdturd/32/259_2.png) [@NurdTurd](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/NurdTurd)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/17 "2015-12-03T18:44:52Z")

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Ahh I see what you mean. Good catch.

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**Author:** ![NurdTurd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/nurdturd/32/259_2.png) [@NurdTurd](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/NurdTurd)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/18 "2015-12-03T18:45:17Z")

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Well, if you guys don’t know what clients to use I found this: [List of Client Implementations](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/list-of-client-implementations/2103)

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**Author:** ![eva2000](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/eva2000/32/289_2.png) [@eva2000](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/eva2000)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encypt-enters-public-beta/4993/19 "2015-12-03T19:03:29Z")

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Working fine for me in public beta with my [Letsencrypt Nginx integration](https://community.centminmod.com/posts/21438/)

previous le12.http2ssl.xyz SSL certificate expiry date

```
./expirydate.sh

/etc/letsencrypt/live/le10.http2ssl.xyz/cert.pem
certificate expires in 71 days on 13 Feb 2016

/etc/letsencrypt/live/le11.http2ssl.xyz/cert.pem
certificate expires in 81 days on 23 Feb 2016

/etc/letsencrypt/live/le12.http2ssl.xyz/cert.pem
certificate expires in 82 days on 24 Feb 2016

```

re-run previously generated le12.http2ssl.xyz cronjob manually

```
bash /usr/local/nginx/conf/ssl/le12.http2ssl.xyz/letsencrypt-le12.http2ssl.xyz-cron

IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at
   /etc/letsencrypt/live/le12.http2ssl.xyz/fullchain.pem. Your cert
   will expire on 2016-03-02. To obtain a new version of the
   certificate in the future, simply run Let's Encrypt again.
nginx: the configuration file /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf test is successful
Reloading nginx: [OK]

```

new expiry date for le12.http2ssl.xyz

```
./expirydate.sh

/etc/letsencrypt/live/le10.http2ssl.xyz/cert.pem
certificate expires in 71 days on 13 Feb 2016

/etc/letsencrypt/live/le11.http2ssl.xyz/cert.pem
certificate expires in 81 days on 23 Feb 2016

/etc/letsencrypt/live/le12.http2ssl.xyz/cert.pem
certificate expires in 89 days on 2 Mar 2016

```

thank you Letsencrypt !