Let's make Let's Encrypt easy and simple

[rugk]

@david7364

It does look like I am wrong about the large number of successful certificates issued, if it is really true that LE CA servers cannot respond to a manual certificate signing request (CSR) and keys by creating a valid certificate that can be installed manually. Can someone here who really knows verify that it will not do this? I already know that ACME is the whole point of LE, but LE also claims to be a CA, so I have been assuming that it will accept a CSR. Please, someone else respond on this.

Of course you can manually specify a csr and submit it to ACME. Use certonly and --csr for this.