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Let's Encrypt vs Raccoon: What are the differences?
Developers describe Let's Encrypt as "A free, automated, and open Certificate Authority (CA)". It is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). On the other hand, Raccoon is detailed as "A high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning". It is a tool made for reconnaissance and information gathering with an emphasis on simplicity. It will do everything from fetching DNS records, retrieving WHOIS information, obtaining TLS data, detecting WAF presence and up to threaded dir busting and subdomain enumeration. Every scan outputs to a corresponding file.
Let's Encrypt and Raccoon are primarily classified as "Certificate Authority" and "Security" tools respectively.
Raccoon is an open source tool with 1.77K GitHub stars and 268 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Raccoon's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Let's Encrypt
- Open Source SSL48
- Simple setup32
- Free9
- Microservices9
- Easy ssl certificates0