I’m just so annoyed of fighting this all the time.

If I can’t figure this out I’m going to disable all https redirecting and all certificate errors off so I can have some peace

EDIT: I do not wish to manage certificates I do not want to setup private key infrastructure I don’t want to use real internet domain names I don’t want to manually install certificates into browsers after fishing them out of my ephemeral virtual machines

I just want to, add exception for *.lan for https auto redirect and auto-accept self-signed certificates as valid. This is not much to ask.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    10 months ago

    but it’s their CA so why would they do that?

    I don’t mean them specifically, but that to me managing access to such a CA cert’s keys is security nightmare, because if I somehow get an infection, and it finds the cert file and the private key, it’ll be much easier for it to make itself more persistent than I want it.

    But if you don’t trust your own CA what’s the point of having a CA?

    That’s the point. I don’t recommend having one. I recommend self signed certs that are

    • limited to a lan (sub)domain or a wildcard of it
    • you verified by the fingerprint (firefox can show this)
    • you only allowed for those of your internal services for the cert was intended

    Or if you don’t want to deal with self signed certs, buy a domain and do lets encrypt with the DNS challenge.
    That’s also more secure, but can be more of a hassle, though I guess it depends on preference.

    But then I would use this latter one too if I had opened any services to the internet, but I didn’t because I don’t need to.

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I’m in a home environment. I don’t have a TPM*, I don’t have yubikeys. And no, certificates won’t be placed on a lot of servers, as

        • I have only one, 2 if you count the raspberry
        • both of them uses a wildcard for its own subdomain, so other servers wouldn’t be affected anyway