Add Let's Encrypt support to base screenconnect functonality

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With LetEncrypt now in production It will be an ansome feature if ScreenConnect woukd support it strait at install.

you could offert ssl support out of the box for all client raising the security of your application and reducing the effort for end user to set it up.

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Support LetsEncrypt

Partner would like SC product supported LetsEncrypt on Windows or Linux.

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Sean White Team Member
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We've always liked to be transparent, so we'll try to be better about adding a brief note when we close issues with a high number of votes in the future.

As a product feature, there wasn't a clean way to implement this specific ask. We discussed it multiple times and determined it wasn't a good fit. Our conversations led to improvements, like the introduction of the security toolkit which simplifies HTTP-HTTPS redirect, but a Let's Encrypt integration would have been very hard to maintain and a hack at best.

When feature requests like this come up, we tend to leave them open hoping that advances by the vendors, new tech, and sometimes team bandwidth will allow for them to be completed in the future. We perform internal check ins on most of these issues every 3 to 6 months, but sometimes issues get cut to make way for higher priorities.

Recently, we've prioritized advances in the performance of the session manager, relay, and the router to allow for better performance and scalability. We've also been looking at long time asks that will make the product more human for users, so they discover some of the power user features inside of the product. This of course is outside of the work to stay vigilant in our security posture and squash bugs.


Thank you all for your feedback, it is heard and appreciated.


Sean White

Senior Product Manager


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Koncept Technologies

This is a very good idea, and will be much more if it's possible thru the web interface like cPanel do.


See website here for example: https://letsencrypt-for-cpanel.com/


Maybe it can be an extension with a one-time fee.


And after that we can just forget about renewing our cert.

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Thomas-Louis Laforest
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This is a very good idea, and will be much more if it's possible thru the web interface like cPanel do.


See website here for example: https://letsencrypt-for-cpanel.com/


Maybe it can be an extension with a one-time fee.


And after that we can just forget about renewing our cert.

why the fee letecrypt give the certificate for free.

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Jacob Graf

I almost didn't find this one because of the spelling. Can you update the title to include "Let's Encrypt" so we can try to get more traction on this one? Would love to see the ability to generate/install a Let's Encrypt certificate right from within the GUI. Thanks!

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anonymous
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Nick Whittome

This is a must. Please implement this asap

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Poynter

+1 for this. Easy encryption of the web interface should be pretty standard now where remote access is used.

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Digitalfix

Great feature, thought I already have it running with SSL/paid certificate, this is a must have. Make it possible to add multiple host names in the configuration of Let's Encrypt!

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Gary Herbstman

Agree, this is a no-brainer add-on. We have been moving almost all our certificates to Lets Encrypt as they expire. I never understood why certificates were so expensive. Always felt like I was getting ripped off by cert companies.


There are plenty of open source apps like winsimple to use as a guide.

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Matthew Thompson

+1 this is a great idea, I'm surprised so many others have thought about this too! 

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