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go-acme/lego

SecurityGo#letsencrypt#acme#certificate#tls#security
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Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go

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About the project

ACME client and library written in Go for obtaining and renewing TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt and other ACME CAs. Supports HTTP-01, DNS-01 and TLS-ALPN-01 challenges, 200+ DNS providers, and works both as a CLI and as a library.

Useful for
  • Set up automatic Let's Encrypt certificate issuance and renewal for a web server
  • Issue a wildcard certificate via DNS-01 challenge with a supported DNS provider
  • Embed certificate issuance into a Go application using the lego library

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

1.0 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 8, 2026, 11:14 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

048July 11, 2026October 8, 2026

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  • GitHub Trending Go today: #5, +4 stars.

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Total stars
9,911
Today
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Forks
1,175
Issues and pull requests
3,055
Watchers
95
Language
Go
License
MIT
Latest release
v5.5.2 · September 23, 2026
Created
June 8, 2015
Last push
October 7, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

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