Erik L. Arneson is a freelance writer and software developer with WordPress experience. He is located in Portland, Oregon. Jekyll 2026-06-18T15:03:10+00:00 https://arnesonium.com/feeds/tls.xml Erik L. Arneson Erik L. Arneson 2017-01-20T00:33:04+00:00 https://arnesonium.com/2017/01/from-startcom-to-lets-encrypt <p>This past Fall, a bunch of big names <a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/distrusting-wosign-and-startcom.html" target="_blank">removed StartCom from their trusted SSL Certificate Authority list</a>. As a result, when I renewed my SSL certificates this year, I went with <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/" target="_blank">Let’s Encrypt</a>. It was a pleasant experience, because Let’s Encrypt uses a command-line client called <a href="https://certbot.eff.org/" target="_blank">Certbot</a> that does most of the heavy lifting for you. <!--more--></p> <p>After certificate renewal, everything is still looking pretty good. Please let me know if you have any SSL problems with my website through <a href="https://arnesonium.com/contact/">the contact form</a>.</p> <p><img src="https://arnesonium.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screenshot-from-2017-01-19-16-16-45-1024x550.png" alt="Screenshot from 2017-01-19 16-16-45" width="1024" height="550" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-659" /></p>