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Re:Ask HN: What's your solution for SSL on internal servers? by ThermalCube on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:45AM (#30272512)
(Untested idea) I'd suggest creating your own Root CA with an expire-date far in the future. Install it's public key as a trusted certificate and all derived certificates should not prompt any issues anymore
Re:Ask HN: What's your solution for SSL on internal servers? by tqwhite on Thursday February 10, 2022 @03:24PM (#30291948)
I did this on my workstation. I used it for a short while. Then I realized that I was actually putting a thing into the world that circumvents the entire security infrastructure of the world. Then I needed to do it for a server. Local only. Never production.

Then I thought, WTF am I doing?. I realized that I was making computers that would circumvent the world's security apparatus. Of course it won't hurt if I make no errors of practice or judgement but, am I really smart enough to handle highly radioactive material.

I ripped it all out. It makes me shudder thinking about it.

Re:Ask HN: What's your solution for SSL on internal servers? by PinguTS on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @09:09AM (#30272765)
Then far in the future, when your own Root CA expires, then there comes all the trouble to update all the services/devices to trust the new Root CA.

This becomes a nightmare, when the original admin in the org is gone long times ago.

Re:Ask HN: What's your solution for SSL on internal servers? by spyke112 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:56AM (#30272638)
Please don't. I've been in orgs doing this and it sucks. There seems to just be to many edge cases, and to many custom scripts for setup.
Re:Ask HN: What's your solution for SSL on internal servers? by coding_unit_1 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:54AM (#30272621)
That's not untested insofar as that's how I've always seen self-signed certs managed in an org.