Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates)

[J. Roeleveld]

On Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:44:47 PM CEST karl@××××××××.se wrote:
> 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

It's not that easy to do it with internal-only systems as Let's Encrypt 
requires the hostname to be known externally.
And there are plenty of devices you do not want the whole internet to know 
about.

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Joost