⚠️ Spam Cleanup in Action!
Please be aware we are cleaning up spam users from this site along with any spam articles. If you find some spam, report it on the forum.
Certificates: Difference between revisions
openhomelab>The vmonkey m startSSL not longer issuing certs |
m 1 revision imported |
(No difference)
| |
Latest revision as of 17:00, 31 July 2020
Introduction[edit | edit source]
This section is to assist you in the basics of certificates, how to generate them or even a few examples of free Certificate authorities and even some paid ones
Pros and Cons[edit | edit source]
The pros of securing your home lab with certificates is if you are accessing this via the web you know your data and/or credentials are 'safe' within transit. I use the word safe as this depends on the cipher used and any known vulnerabilities that crop up. For example the heartbleed bug [[1]]
Costs[edit | edit source]
Free to £$£$ hundreds
Use Cases[edit | edit source]
The use cases for this type of technology can be used in SSL VPNs, RDP Web Access, Citrix Netscalers, VMware vCenter/Horizon desktops
Known Issues and Solutions[edit | edit source]
- Self Signed certificates
- Self signed certficates can be used for free but wont be trusted by any machine outside your domain
- Free CA's
- There are some free CA's such as https://www.startssl.com/ (no longer issuing as of 1 Jan 2018) or the latest up coming project https://letsencrypt.org/ as well as https://www.sslforfree.com/
- Paid for CA's
- There are a few common CA's you can use such as https://www.digicert.com or https://ssl.comodo.com/free-ssl-certificate.php who offer a free 90 day trial so you can make sure you are happy