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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Matthew Thompson
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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.

@Koncept Technologies "Maybe it can be an extension with a one-time fee."


No way! The whole point of Let's Encrypt is that it is free. Charging to implement ACME is unethical. The point of Let's Encrypt is to make HTTPS usable by everyone. 


Charging, even small amounts, is against the point - you can already get cheap certs for a few dollars. The point is certificate authorities can no longer justify charging for DV when it can be automated for free.


I'd only support it if 100% of the proceeds were a donation to Let's Encrypt.

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Stefan

+1 in times of encryption I agree as well that this has to be a no-brainer add-on.

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Tyler

+1 Anything I say here would just repeat what others have already stated. I would love to see this!

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jphcomputerservices

Yes please !

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We Connect IT

+1 for this! We need to secure connectwise easly without some hoops to go thrue!

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Fady Elias

+1

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jjjandj

This would be great if this got into a a Release soon.

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John Colley

Pending review for 3 years!? Can we at least get a status update?

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Don

YO YO make it GO!!!   Get the review over with and lets move on the encryption!!

PLEASE!!

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Rick Boatright

oh yes please pretty please

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