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[-] Sallp@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

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

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 years ago

So is using "pass" as the password to all of your sensitive systems. Still not best, or even good practice.

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 19 points 2 years ago

Are you conflating self-signed and untrusted?

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

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years 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.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years 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.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

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

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