Let's Encrypt

A lot of new users used my script after writing my first blog article for Citrix. Since then I made some improvements and continuing to add new features. Today I released the latest version of my “GenLeCertForNS” script. Within this version I solved some issues and improved the overall speed (especially with larger orders).

For a while now it’s possible to use Let’s Encrypt certificates, they are trusted (cross signed), secure and most of all FREE! There are already a lot of tools available to generate these certificates. I haven’t come across a tool or script to generate these certificates and upload them to a Citrix NetScaler. So I thought why not build it myself. I already tried it in a previous attempt, but I wanted more automation and thus I created this version. To learn more about the Let’s Encrypt, check how it works.. What my script does in very basic steps (for example you want a certificate for www.domain.com): Ask LE (Let’s Encrypt) to validate “www.domain.com” (1) LE returns data (2) among them: