certificates
🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH. (by smallstep)
bless
Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS Lambda function (by Netflix)
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| 40 | 6 | |
| 6,154 | 2,729 | |
| 3.0% | 0.4% | |
| 9.5 | 0.0 | |
| 6 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| Go | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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certificates
Posts with mentions or reviews of certificates.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-04.
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You shouldn't run NSA-grade Wi-Fi at home
You can roll your own with https://github.com/smallstep/certificates. We maintain major open source projects and contribute a lot to other projects. I don’t think that means everything we do has to be open source. Sorry this one wasn’t. Doing this in pure open source would be a book, not a blog post.
Love Let’s Encrypt — we’re sponsors — but using them for WiFi is a terrible idea. You need internal PKI for WiFi.
- Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023
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Distributing ACME Let'sEncrypt certs for homelab
letsencrypt was always about moving the public internet off of http, it doesn't really make sense to use it throughout your internal network. but if you really want TLS and ACME for auto renewal, other solutions are available: https://github.com/smallstep/certificates
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SSH With SSO
You could try step-ca: https://github.com/smallstep/certificates. There’s an OIDC provisioner for SSO and you can sign (short-lived) SSH certificates with it.
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Web application to manage self-signed certificate authorities/certificates/keys
You could also check out out Step CA: https://github.com/smallstep/certificates and the accompanying CLI. It has an ACME server and other methods for requesting certificates. It can work/integrate with your existing root(s), too.
- Selfhosted CA tutorial
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ACME setup. Domain required?
This is a lot more complicated setup but it works for me. I run a private CA called step-ca from smallstep and it provides CA and ACME endpoint. I use a .home domain. The trick is the validation for non-http devices which is typically the DNS-01 challenge. For this, I have unbound in pfsense setup to work with acme-dns so I can keep everything internal. Again its complicated but if your learning cyber security it might help get a handle on all things TLS. Btw way behind the scenes I think the ACME plugin is really just running acme.sh bash script which is really good. Final reminder as other have stated. Private CA is great but you need to distro the roots and intermediates out to your clients for trust. If all your trying to do is have an https web gui for pfsense from one device its pretty easy.
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A convert from Judaism to Catholicism goes to r/Catholicism to ask if it would be appropriate to pass down a century old Jewish prayer shawl to his son. Not everyone is welcoming.
Just a little heads up https://smallstep.com/certificates/
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Looking for an open source certificate management solution.
Step-ca: Not web based, but the CLI is pretty user friendly: https://smallstep.com/certificates/
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Using k8s-apiserver as AAA server for microservices?
I was just looking at https://smallstep.com/certificates a few days ago. It looks like they have an operator that fits your description as well as example docs for setting up inter-microservice mtls.
bless
Posts with mentions or reviews of bless.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-26.
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What are SSH Certificate Authority solutions?
In the quick search I learned about ssh cert authority which looks very manual and also like a dead project smallstep's step-ca who put together very nice article about how to begin certificate authority process Netflix' BLESS is AWS only Cashier which also looks quite ok
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What is the best way to manage SSH identities and access on scale?
NETFLIX BLESS - Bastion's Lambda Ephemeral SSH Service
- Has anyone here heard of the term “infrastructure access platform” or StrongDm or Teleport?
- Cryptojacking Attacks Continue To Target SSH Servers
- How often should I rotate my SSH keys?
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Why SSH certificates are awesome
3. BLESS - By Netflix
What are some alternatives?
When comparing certificates and bless you can also consider the following projects:
mkcert - A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.
the-bastion - Authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses.
boulder - An ACME-based certificate authority, written in Go.
cashier - A self-service CA for OpenSSH
omgwtfssl - SSL certificate generation for developers who don't TLS good
openssh-sk-winhello - A helper for OpenSSH to interact with FIDO2 and U2F security keys through native Windows Hello API
cfssl - CFSSL: Cloudflare's PKI and TLS toolkit
keymaster - Short term certificate based identity system (ssh/x509 ca + openidc)
easy-rsa - easy-rsa - Simple shell based CA utility
streamalert - StreamAlert is a serverless, realtime data analysis framework which empowers you to ingest, analyze, and alert on data from any environment, using datasources and alerting logic you define.
traefik-certs-dumper - Dump ACME data from Traefik to certificates
sekey - Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication!