Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates)
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:24:37
Message-Id: 2585791.mvXUDI8C0e@wstn
In Reply to: Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates) by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 13:16:59 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > So what would you recommend for someone in the case Joost cites? I'm in
4 > > that position, being a home user of a small network but no registered
5 > > Internet name.
6 >
7 > A self-signed certificate combined with a browser extension that lets
8 > you "pin" it. With pinning, you can keep your browser usable on the WWW
9 > while still rejecting any forged certificates for your own hosts. The
10 > end result works pretty much like SSH keys do.
11
12 Thanks Michael.
13
14 --
15 Regards,
16 Peter.