* Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates)
@ 2021-06-01 10:44 99% ` karl
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From: karl @ 2021-06-01 10:44 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
BillK:
...
> And another "wondering" - all the warnings about trusting self signed
> certs seem a bit self serving. Yes, they are trying to certify who you
> are, but at the expense of probably allowing access to your
> communications by "authorised parties" (such as commercial entities
> purchasing access for MITM access - e.g. certain router/firewall
> companies doing deep inspection of SSL via resigning or owning both end
> points). If its only your own communications and not with a third,
> commercial party self signed seems a lot more secure.
...
You can use https://letsencrypt.org/ instead of a self-signed cert:
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority
brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).
It was pretty simple to get it to work with
https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny
Regards,
/Karl Hammar
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