&gt; 1. Still WAY too complicated (look at all the stuff you have to know and type)<p>The website mentions at the bottom that they&#x27;re intending to get all of this automated, but they&#x27;re not at that point yet; they&#x27;re still in public beta. Certainly all those commands look automat<i>able</i>, just with enough integration with lots of distros &#x2F; web servers, testing, and debugging. The Let&#x27;s Encrypt protocol (ACME) is very much designed so that a web server can acquire a certificate with just about no human interaction besides telling it to do so, and keep it up-to-date with no human interaction.<p>I certainly agree that the instructions on that website are still way too complicated for general use, though far, far simpler than the status quo ante Let&#x27;s Encrypt.