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certificates
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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.
boulder
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Trying to do something a bit crazy
There's no reason you couldn't run your own ACME server (the Let's Encrypt folk publish an open source one, boulder, but there's plenty of others). Then you can just use certbot in your VMs to manage certificates, configured to point to your CA server instead of the Let's Encrypt one.
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Raise a toast if you've ever used Lets Encrypt
Let's Encrypt's ACME server is open source: https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
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Should you use Let's Encrypt for internal hostnames?
GP's post prompted me to look into LE's ACME server implementation, Boulder [1], but it's pretty apparent that Boulder is not suitable for small scale deployments. But the smallstep "certificates" project seems to be a lot more reasonable for this use-case. Thanks for sharing, I'll definitely check it out!
[1]: https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder
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How to automate regular renewal certificates for a private CA?
There's also Boulder too which supposedly is what Let's Encrypt actually runs. But, I believe you have be running Python or Docker on your Linux server, where SmallStep didn't have that requirement.
- Self-hosted WUI Internal CA is needed. What would you suggest?
- r/crypto - Let's Encrypt's recommended reading list
- Let's Encrypt's recommended reading list
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is it OK to use Free SSL/TLS Certificates - Let's Encrypt ?
Actually it is Open Source (I'd say "Free Software" but they're the same thing). The software that makes the CA work, Boulder, is here: https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder and the end user software to get certificates which now called CertBot but was once just named "letsencrypt" is here: https://github.com/certbot/certbot
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The Next Gen Database Servers Powering Let's Encrypt
Why are you assuming that their workload includes just one query per emitted certificate?
The reality is that they are storing information during challenges, implementing rate limiting per-account, supporting OCSP validation and a few other things.
You can investigate further if you really want to see the queries that they make against the database since their software (Boulder) is open source [1]. Most queries are in the files in the "sa" (storage authority) folder.
[1] https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/
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Why Let's Encrypt decided for EPYC instead of Xeon for their database
They won't pay any licensing fees at all when their whole stack is open source. They even wrote their own CA from scratch.
What are some alternatives?
mkcert - A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.
pki - The Dogtag Certificate System is an enterprise-class Certificate Authority (CA) which supports all aspects of certificate lifecycle management, including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management.
omgwtfssl - SSL certificate generation for developers who don't TLS good
acmez - Premier ACME client library for Go
cfssl - CFSSL: Cloudflare's PKI and TLS toolkit
getssl - obtain free SSL certificates from letsencrypt ACME server Suitable for automating the process on remote servers.
easy-rsa - easy-rsa - Simple shell based CA utility
letsencrypt - Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
traefik-certs-dumper - Dump ACME data from Traefik to certificates
bulletproof-tls
pam-ussh - uber's ssh certificate pam module
cert-manager-webhook-ovh - OVH Webhook for Cert Manager