Certbot and Let's Encrypt Now Support IP Address Certificates

speckx 34 points 7 comments March 12, 2026
www.eff.org · View on Hacker News

Discussion Highlights (5 comments)

gnabgib

(29 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343278 Related 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (506 points, 2 months ago, 281 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647491

pocksuppet

As seen in the BND's attack on jabber.ru, some adversaries have no difficulty taking over your IP address. Will this be a new threat vector?

greatgib

They should at least restricted it to IPv6. Here it will be a kill for everyone using mobile network and 5g hotspots.

apitman

Nice. I've been using lego for this the past few weeks.

nubinetwork

When will they let me generate certificates for IMAP and SMTP?

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