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Re: [Acme] Issuing certificates based on Simple HTTP challenges

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Wed, 16 December 2015 03:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] Issuing certificates based on Simple HTTP challenges
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Hi Phil,

On 16/12/15 03:25, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> I think you probably overstate your difficulty just slightly. I think
> that if you were to make a case to the campus IT folk, you could get
> them to touch the DNS one time only to insert some records that
> will allow you to automate issue of certs.

Hmm. I suspect our specific, and very local to TCD, 30-years
war between campus-wide IT and the dept of comp sci hasn't
been your prime time viewing;-) IOW, you're kinda right and
kinda not. But...

... that's not entirely facetious, iirc local bitter politics
has been a part of all corporate-wide re-naming (a.k.a PKI)
projects that I've seen, and always will be.

One can draw different equally valid conclusions from that.
Mine, for now, is to try solve the low-hanging-fruit issues
and then, after that is working, go from there to try for
peace-making between those discommoded by naming politics.

Cheers,
S.

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