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Systems Administration Installing LetsEncrypt's CertBot on Ubuntu 20.04+ LetsEncrypt is one of many Certificate Authorities (CAs) that provide genuine SSL/TLS Certificates to people who want to secure the connection to their website. This allows people to access a website via encrypted HTTPS traffic. The process to make a certificate with LetsEncrypt's CertBot is pretty simple
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