From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 17:38:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3af2cc757588b4599cc4e06308947b003cadfab.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cc069e9-b708-c994-ca93-dc0a2d77f8f9@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 15:25 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> The proper way configure certificates is:
>
> 1) Create a key on the local server.
> 2) Create a Certificate Signing Request (a.k.a. CSR) which references,
> but does not include, the key.
> 3) As a CA to sign the CSR.
> 4) Use the certificate from the CA.
>
> The important thing is that the key, which is integral to the encryption
> *NEVER* *LEAVES* *YOUR* *CONTROL*!
>
*Any* CA can just generate a new key and sign the corresponding
certificate. All browsers will treat their fake certificate
corresponding to the fake key on their fake web server as completely
legitimate. The "real" original key that you generated has no special
technical properties that distinguish it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-01 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-29 1:08 [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates zcampe
2021-05-29 6:26 ` Walter Dnes
2021-06-01 4:45 ` J. Roeleveld
2021-06-01 5:15 ` William Kenworthy
2021-06-01 10:44 ` Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates) karl
2021-06-01 11:17 ` J. Roeleveld
2021-06-01 11:40 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-06-01 12:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2021-06-01 12:16 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-06-01 12:24 ` Peter Humphrey
2021-06-01 13:22 ` Rich Freeman
2021-06-01 13:17 ` karl
2021-06-01 13:20 ` karl
2021-06-01 13:17 ` karl
2021-06-01 11:59 ` [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates Adam Carter
2021-06-01 13:29 ` Rich Freeman
2021-06-02 1:13 ` William Kenworthy
2021-06-03 9:06 ` Adam Carter
2021-06-01 21:25 ` Grant Taylor
2021-06-01 21:38 ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2021-06-02 1:51 ` Grant Taylor
2021-06-02 7:21 ` J. Roeleveld
2021-06-02 20:22 ` Grant Taylor
2021-06-02 7:48 ` Fannys
2021-06-02 20:23 ` Grant Taylor
2021-06-01 22:28 ` Fannys
2021-06-02 7:23 ` J. Roeleveld
2021-06-01 21:05 ` Grant Taylor
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