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* 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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