Can I get a HTTPS certificate for mymachine.cs.superuniversity.ca from "Let’s Encrypt"

I’m trying to set up a HTTPS certificate for mymachine.cs.superuniversity.ca (free or paid).
Before I jump in, is it even possible to set up such a certificate using Let’s Encrypt?

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Is there any security risk when a certificate authority is used more than all others?

According to NetTrack, Let’s Encrypt is now used on more than 50% of domains (51.21% as of April 2018).

I know Let’s Encrypt helped a lot of people to get free certificates for their websites, so I think its existence was a … Continue reading Is there any security risk when a certificate authority is used more than all others?

Could a state actor MITM Let’s Encrypt certificate issuance to provide a cert they could more easily crack

Let’s Encrypt issues certificates of which they are the CA. That cert is based on a private key generated in the server by LE’s auto/certbot script.

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Untrusted Connection after installing SSL Certificates from Let’s Encrypt

I got 2 certificates issued from “Let’s Encrypt”, one for “crackerscreed.org” and the other for “www.crackerscreed.org”. The cPanel on my hosting service says:

When cPanel installs an SSL certificate onto one of your domains, it also installs the same certificate onto that domain’s “www” subdomain, and vice-versa. Unless your certificate matches both domains, however, only one of the two domains will show as a secure site in a user’s web browser.

Currently, I have the “crackerscreed.org” cert installed.

Now, if I try to visit https://crackerscreed.org it works perfectly fine but if the visitors try to visit https://www.crackerscreed.org, they receives an error saying “the connection is insecure”. How do I deal with it?

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