Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Sysadmin@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYou have a organizational identity right?lemmy.zipimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1311arrow-down122
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minus-squareJWBananas@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·1 year agoAre you conflating self-signed and untrusted? Self-signed is fine if you have a trusted root deployed across your environment.
minus-squarenickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year agoCorrect. 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.
Are you conflating self-signed and untrusted?
Self-signed is fine if you have a trusted root deployed across your environment.
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.