Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:29 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:59 AM Adam Carter wrote: > >> > >> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-02 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/2/21 1:48 AM, Fannys wrote: Tech should be based on tech. Not faith and trust on the other party. That's where detection of breach of trust comes into play. Thus DNSSEC and things related. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-02 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/2/21 1:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Do you know which extensions add this? I don't remember exactly (they weren't compatible with Firefox 78) but from memory, they were from the CZ NIC operator. They have many things related to this. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-02 Thread Fannys
On June 2, 2021 1:51:06 AM UTC, Grant Taylor wrote: >On 6/1/21 3:38 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> *Any* CA can just generate a new key and sign the corresponding >> certificate. > >This is where what can /technically/ be done diverges from what is >/allowed/ to be done. > >CAs adhering to the

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 12:28:49 AM CEST Fannys wrote: > On June 1, 2021 4:45:45 AM UTC, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > >On Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:26:57 AM CEST Walter Dnes wrote: > >> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:08:39AM +0200, zca...@gmail.com wrote > >> > >> > 125 config files in /etc/ssl/certs

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 3:51:06 AM CEST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/1/21 3:38 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > All browsers will treat their fake certificate corresponding to the > > fake key on their fake web server as completely legitimate. The "real" > > original key that you generated has no

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/1/21 3:38 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: *Any* CA can just generate a new key and sign the corresponding certificate. This is where what can /technically/ be done diverges from what is /allowed/ to be done. CAs adhering to the CA/B Forum's requirements on CAA records mean that they

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/6/21 9:29 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:59 AM Adam Carter wrote: >>> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Fannys
On June 1, 2021 4:45:45 AM UTC, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: >On Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:26:57 AM CEST Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:08:39AM +0200, zca...@gmail.com wrote >> >> > 125 config files in /etc/ssl/certs needs update. >> > >> > For certificates I would expect the old and

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 15:25 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > > The proper way configure certificates is: > > 1) Create a key on the local server. > 2) Create a Certificate Signing Request (a.k.a. CSR) which references, > but does not include, the key. > 3) As a CA to sign the CSR. > 4) Use the

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 5/31/21 11:15 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: And another "wondering" - all the warnings about trusting self signed certs seem a bit self serving. No, it's not self serving. Considerably more people than public certificate authorities bemoan self signed certificates. Consider this: 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 5/29/21 12:26 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Looking through them is "interesting". There seem to be a lot of /etc/ssl/certs/.0 files, where "?" is either a random number or a lower case letter. They aren't random at all. They are a fingerprint (hash) of signing (?) certificates. The

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:59 AM Adam Carter wrote: >> >> 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

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

2021-06-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 8:16 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > So what would you recommend for someone in the case Joost cites? I'm in that > > position, being a home user of a small network but no registered Internet > > name. > > > >

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

2021-06-01 Thread karl
Karl: > Michael Orilitzky: Sorry, I mistyped, it should be: Peter Humphrey > ... > > * The LetsEncrypt certificates expire after three months, as opposed  > > to 10+ years for a self-signed certificate. You're supposed to  > > automate this... by running a script as root that takes input

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

2021-06-01 Thread karl
Michael Orilitzky: ... > * The LetsEncrypt certificates expire after three months, as opposed  > to 10+ years for a self-signed certificate. You're supposed to  > automate this... by running a script as root that takes input from  > the web? I'd rather not do that. You can run most part

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

2021-06-01 Thread karl
Joost: > On Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:44:47 PM CEST k...@aspodata.se wrote: ... [ about letsencrypt ] ... > 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

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

2021-06-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 13:16:59 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > So what would you recommend for someone in the case Joost cites? I'm in > > that position, being a home user of a small network but no registered > > Internet name. > > A

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

2021-06-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > So what would you recommend for someone in the case Joost cites? I'm in that > position, being a home user of a small network but no registered Internet > name. > A self-signed certificate combined with a browser extension that lets

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

2021-06-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 12:40:28 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:17 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Adam Carter
> > 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

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

2021-06-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:17 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > 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. > And in this situation

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

2021-06-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:44:47 PM CEST k...@aspodata.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 >

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

2021-06-01 Thread karl
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 >

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-05-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/6/21 12:45 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:26:57 AM CEST Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:08:39AM +0200, zca...@gmail.com wrote >> >>> 125 config files in /etc/ssl/certs needs update. >>> >>> For certificates I would expect the old and invalid ones to

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-05-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, May 29, 2021 8:26:57 AM CEST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:08:39AM +0200, zca...@gmail.com wrote > > > 125 config files in /etc/ssl/certs needs update. > > > > For certificates I would expect the old and invalid ones to be replaced > > by newer ones without user

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-05-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 03:08:39AM +0200, zca...@gmail.com wrote > > 125 config files in /etc/ssl/certs needs update. > > For certificates I would expect the old and invalid ones to be replaced > by newer ones without user intervention. Looking through them is "interesting". There seem to be