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24 alternatives to Anchor Relay – A faster, easier way to get Let's Encrypt certificates
From the cryptic terminal commands to the innumerable ways to shoot yourself in the foot, I always struggled to use TLS certificates. I love how much easier (and cheaper) Let's Encrypt made it to get certificates, but there are still plenty of things to struggle with. That's why we built Relay: a free, browser-based tool that streamlines the ACME workflow, especially for tricky setups like homelabs. Relay acts as a secure intermediary between your ACME client and public certificate authorities like Let's Encrypt. Some ways Relay provides a better experience: - really fast, streamlined…
Anchor Relay is a free, browser-based tool that simplifies obtaining and managing TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt through the ACME protocol. It acts as a secure intermediary between ACME clients and certificate… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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A tiny script to issue and renew TLS certs from Let's Encrypt - diafygi/acme-tiny
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:lock: acmetool, an automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let's Encrypt) - hlandau/acmetool
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go - go-acme/lego
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free SSL certificates issued in less than a minute, for one or multiple domains, supporting wildcards and ACME with tutorials.
2015 · sslforfree.com · its alternatives →
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🔐 Share end-to-end encrypted secrets with others via a one-time URL - sniptt-official/ots
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simplified PHP ACME client. Contribute to analogic/lescript development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TLDR, Let's Seal gives the finger to Adobe and every doc signing tool (docusign, google, etc) who pay to play with the Adobe Approved Trust List and then charge you for something that should be free. Currently even the person checking if a document/contract is sealed or code is authentic has to also be inside the same Adobe walled garden too. Verification, the part that should be free is the part everyone charges for. Thats the shape Let's Encrypt fixed for TLS, and I wanted the same thing for documents and files. The core idea therefore needed to go a bit beyond e signatures and i…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · gethttpsforfree.com · its alternatives →
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Radar Relay▲74Secure cryptocurrency trading directly from your wallet
2018 · geckoterminal.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · keychest.net · its alternatives →
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2024 · raphting.dev · its alternatives →
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Radar Relay▲78A secure and trustless way to trade cryptocurrencies.
2017 · geckoterminal.com · its alternatives →
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Every privacy-focused DNS service requires an account: NextDNS, Cloudflare for Families, Apple's iCloud Private Relay (paid, iOS-only). The protocol that doesn’t require one - ODoH - had basically one well-known public relay operator (Frank Denis on Fastly Compute, default in dnscrypt-proxy). I built a second one and the client to talk to it.
May 2026 · numa.rs · its alternatives →
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A new Certificate Authority - free, automated, and open.
2015 · letsencrypt.org · its alternatives →
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🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH. - smallstep/certificates
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🔐 Share end-to-end encrypted secrets with others via a one-time URL - sniptt-official/ots
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Made this to use my laptop terminal session on mobile without data going through a server. tt start -p mypassword → get a URL (qrcode) → open in browser → enter password → connected. Direct webrtc datachannel between your machine and browser. Signaling server is a cloudflare worker, exchanges ~2KB of sdp/ice metadata then gets out of the way. Password never transmitted - argon2id derives 256-bit key locally on both ends. All terminal i/o gets nacl secretbox encryption before hitting the datachannel. double encrypted with dtls underneath but I wanted the relay to see nothing useful…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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2013 · getssl.me · its alternatives →
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🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH. - certificates/autocert/README.md at master · smallstep/certificates
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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