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  • Difference between the CloudFlare SSL and Let's Encrypt SSL

    What is the exact difference between the CloudFlare SSL and Let's Encrypt SSL ? Which is recommended to use?

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    There is major difference in Cloudflare SSL and the SSL provided by Lets-encrypt.

    Cloudflare uses universal SSL for all the domains hosted by it for free of cost. The connection between your machine to Cloudflare is encrypted, meaning you will get encrypted data from Cloudflare, but that does not mean Cloudflare fetches the data from web server in encrypted format as not all clients installed certificate on their web server.

    So your data is not actually encrypted unless you install SSL on your web server which will encrypt data to send to Cloudflare and then Cloudflare to your machine.

    Let’s Encrypt provide free SSL which uses ACME protocol which is to make it possible to set up an HTTPS server and have it automatically obtain a browser-trusted certificate, without any human intervention. This is accomplished by running a certificate management agent on the web server. The direct connection from your machine to web server will be encrypted.

    Now with recommendation, its choice of client always. If you are going to use your own SSL on both cloudflare and webserver then cldouflare is recommended.

    If you just want FREE SSL and entire encrypted connection then you can go with Lets encrypt.

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