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 > purchasing access for MITM access - e.g. certain router/firewall > companies doing deep inspection of SSL via resigning or owning both end > points). If its only your own communications and not with a third, > commercial party self signed seems a lot more secure. ...
You can use https://letsencrypt.org/ instead of a self-signed cert: Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). It was pretty simple to get it to work with https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny Regards, /Karl Hammar
