Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates)
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:17:08
Message-Id: 9e56e085f91a57cfe81f857675118517f12ea5b8.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates) by Peter Humphrey
1 On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 >
3 > So what would you recommend for someone in the case Joost cites? I'm in that
4 > position, being a home user of a small network but no registered Internet
5 > name.
6 >
7
8 A self-signed certificate combined with a browser extension that lets
9 you "pin" it. With pinning, you can keep your browser usable on the WWW
10 while still rejecting any forged certificates for your own hosts. The
11 end result works pretty much like SSH keys do.

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Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates) Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates) Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>