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Let's Encrypt won its Comodo trademark battle – but now fan tools must rename

  • September 18, 2016
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Why the popular letsencrypt.sh is now known as Dehydrated

 
18 Sep 2016 at 03:44, Chris Williams Popular Bash shell script LetsEncrypt.sh, which is used to manage free SSL/TLS certificates from the Let's Encrypt project, has renamed this week to avoid a trademark row.
 
This comes in the wake of Let's Encrypt successfully fending off Comodo, which tried to cynically snatch "Let's Encrypt" for itself.
 
LetsEncrypt.sh, written by Germany-based Lukas Schauer, is now known as Dehydrated. If you have scripts or apps that rely on pulling in his code and running it, they may stop working as a result of the name change. Dehydrated is developed independently by Schauer and is not officially affiliated with Let's Encrypt.
 
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Baldrick
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  • September 19, 2016
Anything that Comodo gets involved with tends to have shady connotations and to be honest I am surprised that after winning against them the underdog in the case has gone ahead and changed name.