Let's Encrypt

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Disclaimer

This is the Let's Encrypt Agent DEVELOPER PREVIEW repository.

DO NOT RUN THIS CODE ON A PRODUCTION WEBSERVER. IT WILL INSTALL CERTIFICATES SIGNED BY A TEST CA, AND WILL CAUSE CERT WARNINGS FOR USERS.

This code is intended for testing, demonstration, and integration engineering with OSes and hosting platforms. For the time being project focuses on Linux and Apache, though we will be expanding it to other platforms.

Running the demo code

The demo code is supported and known to work on Ubuntu only (even closely related [Debian is known to fail] (https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview/issues/68)). Therefore, prerequisites for other platforms listed below are provided mainly for the developers reference.

Prerequisites

In general:

• swig is required for compiling m2crypto
• augeas is required for the python-augeas bindings

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python python-setuptools python-virtualenv \
  python-dev gcc swig dialog libaugeas0 libssl-dev ca-certificates

Mac OSX

sudo brew install augeas swig

Installation

virtualenv --no-site-packages -p python2 venv
./venv/bin/python setup.py install
sudo ./venv/bin/letsencrypt

Hacking

In order to start hacking, you will first have to create a development environment:

./venv/bin/python setup.py dev

The code base, including your pull requests, must have 100% test statement coverage and be compliant with the coding style. The following tools are there to help you:

• ./venv/bin/tox starts a full set of tests. Please make sure you run it before submitting a new pull request.

• ./venv/bin/tox -e cover checks the test coverage only.

• ./venv/bin/tox -e lint checks the style of the whole project, while ./venv/bin/pylint --rcfile=.pylintrc file will check a single file only.

Documentation

The official documentation is available at https://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org.

In order to generate the Sphinx documentation, run the following commands.

./venv/bin/python setup.py docs
cd docs
make clean html SPHINXBUILD=../venv/bin/sphinx-build

This should generate documentation in the docs/_build/html directory.

Coding style

Most importantly, be consistent with the rest of the code, please.

1. Read [PEP 8 - Style Guide for Python Code] (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008).

2. Follow [Google Python Style Guide] (https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html), with the exception that we use Sphinx-style documentation:

   def foo(arg):
       """Short description.
   
       :param int arg: Some number.
   
       :returns: Argument
       :rtype: int
   
       """
       return arg
   

3. Remember to use ./venv/bin/pylint.

Command line usage

The letsencrypt commandline tool has a builtin help:

letsencrypt --help

More Information

• Further setup, documentation and open projects are available in the Wiki.

• Join us at our IRC channel: #letsencrypt at Freenode.

• Client software development can be discussed on this mailing list. To subscribe without a Google account, send an email to client-dev+subscribe@letsencrypt.org.