• Sal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If it is for internal only, self signed is a lot easier.

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      1 year ago

      Also probably no sysadmin uses it, but the Gemini protocol requires the use of a self signed cert

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      1 year ago

      Hard disagree. As long as you have any machine with internet access it’s trivial, even more so if you can use DNS challenge.

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        1 year ago

        You’re absolutely correct. For self hosting at home I use cloudflare for DNS challenges.

        Caddy is also amazing at making things even simpler.

      • JWBananas@startrek.website
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        1 year ago

        Are you conflating self-signed and untrusted?

        Self-signed is fine if you have a trusted root deployed across your environment.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          Correct. If using actual pki with a trusted root and private CA, you’re just fine.

          I took the statement to mean ad-hoc self-signed certs, signed by the server that they are deployed on. That works for EiT but defeats any MitM protection, etc.