diff --git a/.github/workflows/clippy-fmt.yml b/.github/workflows/clippy-fmt.yml
index 28a36ce..af782e0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/clippy-fmt.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/clippy-fmt.yml
@@ -50,13 +50,14 @@ jobs:
           components: clippy
           override: true
       
-      - name: create test db for sqlx
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install sqlite3
-          cd database_interactions/sqlx_todo
-          cp .env.example .env
-          cat schema.sql | sqlite3 test.db
-          chmod a+rwx test.db
+      # - name: Create test DBs
+      #   run: |
+      #     sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install sqlite3
+      #     cargo install sqlx-cli --no-default-features --features=rustls,sqlite
+      #     cd basics/todo
+      #     DATABASE_URL="sqlite://./todo.db" sqlx database create
+      #     chmod a+rwx todo.db
+      #     DATABASE_URL="sqlite://./todo.db" sqlx migrate run
 
       - name: clippy
         uses: actions-rs/clippy-check@v1
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9c73147..6e6f7d5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -12,6 +12,23 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "acme-micro"
+version = "0.12.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a18fb402a32ddc56ef7015df8d575c326ea911887ba9b7661ce18786282e89a3"
+dependencies = [
+ "anyhow",
+ "base64 0.13.0",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "log",
+ "openssl",
+ "serde 1.0.136",
+ "serde_json",
+ "time 0.1.43",
+ "ureq",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "actix"
 version = "0.10.0"
@@ -1750,6 +1767,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "phf_codegen 0.10.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "chunked_transfer"
+version = "1.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fff857943da45f546682664a79488be82e69e43c1a7a2307679ab9afb3a66d2e"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cipher"
 version = "0.2.5"
@@ -1934,6 +1957,22 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cookie_store"
+version = "0.12.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3818dfca4b0cb5211a659bbcbb94225b7127407b2b135e650d717bfb78ab10d3"
+dependencies = [
+ "cookie 0.14.4",
+ "idna",
+ "log",
+ "publicsuffix",
+ "serde 1.0.136",
+ "serde_json",
+ "time 0.2.27",
+ "url",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "copyless"
 version = "0.1.5"
@@ -4110,6 +4149,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "openssl-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl-auto-le"
+version = "1.0.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "acme-micro",
+ "actix-files 0.6.0-beta.16",
+ "actix-web 4.0.0-rc.2",
+ "anyhow",
+ "env_logger 0.9.0",
+ "futures-util",
+ "log",
+ "openssl",
+ "reqwest 0.11.9",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "openssl-example"
 version = "1.0.0"
@@ -4564,6 +4618,25 @@ dependencies = [
  "prost-derive",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "publicsuffix"
+version = "1.5.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "95b4ce31ff0a27d93c8de1849cf58162283752f065a90d508f1105fa6c9a213f"
+dependencies = [
+ "idna",
+ "url",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "qstring"
+version = "0.7.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d464fae65fff2680baf48019211ce37aaec0c78e9264c84a3e484717f965104e"
+dependencies = [
+ "percent-encoding",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "quick-error"
 version = "1.2.3"
@@ -4865,6 +4938,42 @@ dependencies = [
  "winreg 0.7.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "reqwest"
+version = "0.11.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "87f242f1488a539a79bac6dbe7c8609ae43b7914b7736210f239a37cccb32525"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.13.0",
+ "bytes 1.1.0",
+ "encoding_rs",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-util",
+ "h2 0.3.11",
+ "http",
+ "http-body 0.4.4",
+ "hyper 0.14.16",
+ "hyper-tls 0.5.0",
+ "ipnet",
+ "js-sys",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "log",
+ "mime",
+ "native-tls",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project-lite 0.2.8",
+ "serde 1.0.136",
+ "serde_json",
+ "serde_urlencoded",
+ "tokio 1.16.1",
+ "tokio-native-tls",
+ "url",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "wasm-bindgen-futures",
+ "web-sys",
+ "winreg 0.7.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "resolv-conf"
 version = "0.7.0"
@@ -5564,7 +5673,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ba54017cf417e62d64260167de6b8d578f99a248225d3f9fd3396db1ab9e7fbc"
 dependencies = [
  "chrono",
- "reqwest",
+ "reqwest 0.10.10",
  "serde 1.0.136",
  "serde_derive",
  "serde_json",
@@ -6627,6 +6736,25 @@ version = "0.7.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a156c684c91ea7d62626509bce3cb4e1d9ed5c4d978f7b4352658f96a4c26b4a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ureq"
+version = "1.5.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2b8b063c2d59218ae09f22b53c42eaad0d53516457905f5235ca4bc9e99daa71"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.13.0",
+ "chunked_transfer",
+ "cookie 0.14.4",
+ "cookie_store",
+ "log",
+ "once_cell",
+ "qstring",
+ "rustls 0.19.1",
+ "url",
+ "webpki 0.21.4",
+ "webpki-roots 0.21.1",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "url"
 version = "2.2.2"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f0852fd..b14e25e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ members = [
    "security/awc_https",
    "security/casbin",
    "security/openssl",
+   "security/openssl-auto-le",
    "security/rustls-client-cert",
    "security/rustls",
    "security/web-cors/backend",
diff --git a/security/openssl-auto-le/Cargo.toml b/security/openssl-auto-le/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1cbd814
--- /dev/null
+++ b/security/openssl-auto-le/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+[package]
+name = "openssl-auto-le"
+version = "1.0.0"
+edition = "2021"
+
+[dependencies]
+actix-web = { version = "4.0.0-rc.2", features = ["openssl"] }
+actix-files = "0.6.0-beta.16"
+
+acme-micro = "0.12"
+anyhow = "1"
+env_logger = "0.9"
+futures-util = { version = "0.3.7", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
+log = "0.4"
+openssl = { version = "0.10", features = ["v110"] }
+reqwest = "0.11"
diff --git a/security/openssl-auto-le/README.md b/security/openssl-auto-le/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9578ad6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/security/openssl-auto-le/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Automatic Let's Encrypt TLS/SSL (via OpenSSL)
+
+We use (acme-micro)[https://github.com/kpcyrd/acme-micro] to auto-generate TLS/SSL certificates via OpenSSL for a given domain.
+
+Process is explained in code.
diff --git a/security/openssl-auto-le/src/main.rs b/security/openssl-auto-le/src/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91c7a66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/security/openssl-auto-le/src/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+use std::{fs, time::Duration};
+
+use acme_micro::{create_p384_key, Certificate, Directory, DirectoryUrl};
+use actix_files::Files;
+use actix_web::{rt, web, App, HttpRequest, HttpServer, Responder};
+use anyhow::anyhow;
+use openssl::{
+    pkey::PKey,
+    ssl::{SslAcceptor, SslMethod},
+    x509::X509,
+};
+
+pub async fn gen_tls_cert(
+    user_email: &str,
+    user_domain: &str,
+) -> anyhow::Result<Certificate> {
+    // Create acme-challenge dir.
+    fs::create_dir("./acme-challenge").unwrap();
+
+    let domain = user_domain.to_string();
+
+    // Create temporary Actix Web server for ACME challenge.
+    let srv = HttpServer::new(|| {
+        App::new().service(
+            Files::new(
+                // HTTP route
+                "/.well-known/acme-challenge",
+                // Server's dir
+                "acme-challenge",
+            )
+            .show_files_listing(),
+        )
+    })
+    .bind((domain, 80))?
+    .shutdown_timeout(0)
+    .run();
+
+    let srv_handle = srv.handle();
+    let srv_task = rt::spawn(srv);
+
+    // Use DirectoryUrl::LetsEncryptStaging for dev/testing.
+    let url = DirectoryUrl::LetsEncrypt;
+
+    // Create a directory entrypoint.
+    let dir = Directory::from_url(url)?;
+
+    // Our contact addresses; note the `mailto:`
+    let user_email_mailto: String = "mailto:{email}".replace("{email}", user_email);
+    let contact = vec![user_email_mailto];
+
+    // Generate a private key and register an account with our ACME provider.
+    // We should write it to disk any use `load_account` afterwards.
+    let acc = dir.register_account(contact.clone())?;
+
+    // Load an account from string
+    let privkey = acc.acme_private_key_pem()?;
+    let acc = dir.load_account(&privkey, contact)?;
+
+    // Order a new TLS certificate for the domain.
+    let mut ord_new = acc.new_order(user_domain, &[])?;
+
+    // If the ownership of the domain have already been
+    // authorized in a previous order, we might be able to
+    // skip validation. The ACME API provider decides.
+    let ord_csr = loop {
+        // Are we done?
+        if let Some(ord_csr) = ord_new.confirm_validations() {
+            break ord_csr;
+        }
+
+        // Get the possible authorizations (for a single domain
+        // this will only be one element).
+        let auths = ord_new.authorizations()?;
+
+        // For HTTP, the challenge is a text file that needs to
+        // be placed in our web server's root:
+        //
+        // <mydomain>/acme-challenge/<token>
+        //
+        // The important thing is that it's accessible over the
+        // web for the domain we are trying to get a
+        // certificate for:
+        //
+        // http://mydomain.io/.well-known/acme-challenge/<token>
+        let chall = auths[0]
+            .http_challenge()
+            .ok_or(anyhow!("no HTTP challenge accessible"))?;
+
+        // The token is the filename.
+        let token = chall.http_token();
+
+        // The proof is the contents of the file
+        let proof = chall.http_proof()?;
+
+        // Place the file/contents in the correct place.
+        let path = format!("acme-challenge/{}", token);
+        fs::write(&path, &proof)?;
+
+        // After the file is accessible from the web, the calls
+        // this to tell the ACME API to start checking the
+        // existence of the proof.
+        //
+        // The order at ACME will change status to either
+        // confirm ownership of the domain, or fail due to the
+        // not finding the proof. To see the change, we poll
+        // the API with 5000 milliseconds wait between.
+        chall.validate(Duration::from_millis(5000))?;
+
+        // Update the state against the ACME API.
+        ord_new.refresh()?;
+    };
+
+    // Ownership is proven. Create a private key for
+    // the certificate. These are provided for convenience; we
+    // could provide our own keypair instead if we want.
+    let pkey_pri = create_p384_key()?;
+
+    // Submit the CSR. This causes the ACME provider to enter a
+    // state of "processing" that must be polled until the
+    // certificate is either issued or rejected. Again we poll
+    // for the status change.
+    let ord_cert = ord_csr.finalize_pkey(pkey_pri, Duration::from_millis(5000))?;
+
+    // Now download the certificate. Also stores the cert in
+    // the persistence.
+    let cert = ord_cert.download_cert()?;
+
+    // Stop temporary server for ACME challenge
+    srv_handle.stop(true).await;
+    srv_task.await??;
+
+    // Delete acme-challenge dir
+    fs::remove_dir_all("./acme-challenge")?;
+
+    Ok(cert)
+}
+
+// "Hello world" example
+async fn index(_req: HttpRequest) -> impl Responder {
+    "Hello world!"
+}
+
+#[actix_web::main]
+async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    env_logger::init_from_env(env_logger::Env::new().default_filter_or("info"));
+
+    // IMPORTANT: Use your own email and domain!
+    let email = "example@example.com";
+    let domain = "mydomain.io";
+
+    //   Load keys
+    // ==============================================
+    // = IMPORTANT:                                 =
+    // = This process has to be repeated            =
+    // = before the certificate expires (< 90 days) =
+    // ==============================================
+    // Obtain TLS certificate
+    let cert = gen_tls_cert(email, domain).await?;
+    let mut ssl_builder = SslAcceptor::mozilla_intermediate(SslMethod::tls())?;
+
+    // Get and add private key
+    let pkey_der = PKey::private_key_from_der(&cert.private_key_der()?)?;
+    ssl_builder.set_private_key(&pkey_der)?;
+
+    // Get and add certificate
+    let cert_der = X509::from_der(&cert.certificate_der()?)?;
+    ssl_builder.set_certificate(&cert_der)?;
+
+    // Get and add intermediate certificate to the chain
+    let icert_url = "https://letsencrypt.org/certs/lets-encrypt-r3.der";
+    let icert_bytes = reqwest::get(icert_url).await?.bytes().await?;
+    let intermediate_cert = X509::from_der(&icert_bytes)?;
+    ssl_builder.add_extra_chain_cert(intermediate_cert)?;
+
+    // NOTE:
+    // Storing pkey_der, cert_der and intermediate_cert somewhere
+    // (in order to avoid unnecessarily regeneration of TLS/SSL) is recommended
+
+    log::info!("starting HTTP server at http://localhost:443");
+
+    // Start HTTP server!
+    let srv = HttpServer::new(|| App::new().route("/", web::get().to(index)))
+        .bind_openssl((domain, 443), ssl_builder)?
+        .run();
+
+    let srv_handle = srv.handle();
+
+    let _auto_shutdown_task = rt::spawn(async move {
+        // Shutdown server every 4 weeks so that TLS certs can be regenerated if needed.
+        // This is only appropriate in contexts like Kubernetes which can orchestrate restarts.
+        rt::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(60 * 60 * 24 * 28)).await;
+        srv_handle.stop(true).await;
+    });
+
+    srv.await?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}