Let's Encrypt is now trusted by all major browsers... AiCloud SSL problems solved?

[m_listed]

This was a fairly big bit of news today, where Let's Encrypt, a free SSL certificate provider, is now trusted by major browsers and will start providing free SSL certification in November 2015. I know I've had lots of issues with AiCloud's annoying self-signed certificate "solution", especially when using mobile interfaces, so what are your thoughts on this? Will we be able to use these certificates somehow with xxxx.asuscomm.com AiCloud interfaces without paying hundreds of dollars for SSL certification?

 

[lancethepants]

Only the owner of the domain can have ssl certs issued for it. Asus would have do something along the lines of what plex recently has done to give all their clients trusted encryption.
https://blog.plex.tv/2015/06/04/its-not-easy-being-green-secure-communication-arrives/

I've been using free (browser trusted) certs for years from startssl.
https://www.startssl.com/
Though I imagine Let's Encrypt will be my preferred free ssl authority once it's open to the public.

 

[lancethepants]

If however aicloud allows you to access it with your own domain, instead of using xxxx.asuscomm.com, then you could create a cert for that domain you own.

 

[RMerlin]

If however aicloud allows you to access it with your own domain, instead of using xxxx.asuscomm.com, then you could create a cert for that domain you own.

Create a CNAME pointing to your DDNS. That's what I do here, so that way it also means that if I were to change DDNS provider, my FQDN remains unchanged.

 

[charlie2alpha]

I got my own domain used as ddns via freedns.afraid.org. It works pretty well, although it's not the simplest or cheapest solution obviously.

 

[lancethepants]

I pay ~$15 per year (with whois privacy) per domain. Usually a lot of places have promos for even less than that though. Not too bad of an expense I think. Plus you can already get free trusted certs, so not a huge expense from start to finish.