On: Automate Public Certificates Lifecycle Management ...

[schoen]

The Let's Encrypt community also made some fun references to the Roadrunner cartoons in the early days.

(1) The reference implementation of the ACME server was originally going to be called Anvil, but was renamed to Boulder. (A later lightweight testing implementation is called Pebble.)

(2) A later ACME client was called "dehydrated", after, well, take a look: https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated

(3) I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting another roadrunner joke here somewhere

[Jac1 → schoen]

And given the tendency towards self owns in the certificate side of administration, a little bit of self awareness in the naming is called for.

Pop culture has a way of distorting mental connections, and marketing should be aware of that.