Re: [openssl-users] Non-self-signed SSL certificates for private hosted DNS zones

2017-03-07 Thread Traiano Welcome
Hi Viktor

Thanks for this confirmation. I think the correct approach would be to use
our internal CA.


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <openssl-us...@dukhovni.org>
wrote:

>
> > On Mar 7, 2017, at 2:21 AM, Traiano Welcome <trai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a private DNS zone hosted on AWS route 53, only resolvable from
> > within some specific VPCs.
> > It appears some applications require an SSL certificate associated with
> > the private DNS zone, and this SSL certificate should come from a
> trusted,
> > external certificate provider (cannot be self-signed).
>
> The "trusted external" CA that issues the not-self-signed end-entity cert
> can almost certainly (with appropriate configuration of the client app)
> be a private CA that you create and provide to the SSL clients.
>
> In which case the question below is moot.
>
> > My questions are:
> >
> > a) Is this a known use-case? i.e private dns zones requiring
> non-self-signed
> > certificates?
>
> I usually use private CA certs for use on non-public networks.
>
> > b) Since the DNS zone is not resolvable on the public internet,
> > how would the certificate validation process occur for applications
> > communicating with systems in the private zone ?
>
> There is some prior history of public CAs issuing certificates for
> private namespaces, but IIRC this practice is discouraged and going
> away.
>
> > c) Do SSL certificate providers issue trusted SSL certificates  for
> private DNS zones?
>
> It is not really possible for them to know that the names in question
> are used in another "private" deployment elsewhere.
>
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[openssl-users] Non-self-signed SSL certificates for private hosted DNS zones

2017-03-06 Thread Traiano Welcome
Hi List

I have a private DNS zone hosted on AWS route 53, only resolvable from
within some specific VPCs.
It appears some applications require an SSL certificate associated with the
private DNS zone, and this SSL certificate should come from a trusted,
external certificate provider (cannot be self-signed).

My questions are:

a) Is this a known use-case? i.e private dns zones requiring
non-self-signed certificates?
b) Since the DNS zone is not resolvable on the public internet, how would
the certificate validation process occur for applications communicating
with systems in the private zone ?
c) Do SSL certificate providers issue trusted SSL certificates  for private
DNS zones?

Many thanks in advance for any advice here!
Traiano
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