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Historically we have used LetsEncrypt at work, but the nginx container we are using has Openssl installed on it already.

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    Why the downvotes? Go ahead and google this question and youll get no answers. – Andrew Graham-Yooll Jun 30 '17 at 16:08
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    [OpenSSL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSL) and [Let's Encrypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Encrypt) are two *very* different things. You'll want to google each of them separately, because this question is similar to "What's the difference between an airplane and a jet engine?" – NobodyNada Jun 30 '17 at 16:10
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    So that would be the simple answer to the question. – Andrew Graham-Yooll Jun 30 '17 at 16:16
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    @jww "We feel the best Stack Overflow questions have a bit of source code in them, but if your question generally covers…software tools commonly used by programmers … then you’re in the right place to ask your question!" With all due respect, this is a question about programming and development according to the SO Help Center. – Andrew Graham-Yooll Jul 01 '17 at 08:06
  • I think if the question was phrased differently to express the intent better, then it would fit this site, as this is exactly why I'm here right now : "What is the difference between commands 'openssl req -x509' where certs are saved into a folder like /etc/ssl/private, and 'certbot certonly' which saves to /etc/letsencrypt/live? " Yes, this is a programming question because I need to evaluate two scripts that seemingly do the same thing, and I'm not sure if one of these code blocks should be deprecated or modified to more closely agree with the other. – TonyG Sep 09 '22 at 14:40

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LetsEncrypt is a free certificate authority. OpenSSL is a software package for generating certificates. The LetsEncrypt scripts use OpenSSL to generate certificates and sign them with the LetsEncrypt service.

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