# SSL certificate **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [September 24, 2024, 10:36am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate/226402 "2024-09-24T10:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@Bam](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Bam)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 10:36am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate/226402/1 "2024-09-24T10:36:58Z")
My clients needs a documentation for SSL certificate. where can i get it? thank you ---
**Author:** ![Osiris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/839c29/32.png) [@Osiris](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Osiris)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate/226402/2 "2024-09-24T11:03:45Z")
What do you mean by "documentation"? ---
**Author:** ![petercooperjr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/petercooperjr/32/84698_2.png) [@petercooperjr](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/petercooperjr)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate/226402/3 "2024-09-24T13:08:59Z")
> **[Documentation - Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/docs/)** > > Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our nonprofit work this year in our 2023 Annual Report. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce5051](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/bruce5051/32/76576_2.png) [@Bruce5051](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Bruce5051)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate/226402/4 "2024-09-24T14:06:17Z")
Moved from #Feature Requests to #Help ---
**Author:** ![Bam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@Bam](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Bam)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate/226402/5 "2024-09-25T11:33:35Z")
they're asking for a softcopy of ssl certificate ---
**Author:** ![danb35](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/danb35/32/70869_2.png) [@danb35](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/danb35)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 11:53am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate/226402/6 "2024-09-25T11:53:05Z")
A "softcopy of ssl certificate" would be a certificate. The docs linked above should get you started. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask in detail--nobody here is a mind-reader. ---
**Author:** ![Nekit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7feea3/32.png) [@Nekit](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Nekit)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate/226402/7 "2024-09-25T12:20:40Z")
Relaying Osiris' question again: What do you mean by "documentation"? If you mean actual physical paper with certificate details and whatnot written on it: LE doesn't provide such things. ---
**Author:** ![Osiris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/839c29/32.png) [@Osiris](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/Osiris)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate/226402/8 "2024-09-25T14:19:38Z")
With my Google-FU I determined that a 'soft copy' of a certificate is the opposite of a certificate contained in a smartcard or otherwise hardware solution. As Dan already said: i.e., a certificate as a simple file. However, usually certificates on smartcards are, as far as I know, not used by webservers and/or e.g. mailservers, but for e.g. authentication. Let's Encrypt only offers "Domain Validated" (DV) certificates: i.e., a certificate for a specific (set of) hostname(s) for usage in the web PKI. I'd like to invite @Bam to explain the purpose of this "softcopy" with utmost details, because currently we're just doing the age old guessing game. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/ssl-certificate/226402/9 "2024-10-25T14:20:01Z")
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