I’m sure their support appreciates that a lot.
I’m sure their support appreciates that a lot.
Yeah, 5 percent ≠ 5 percent points
I typed it like that with the slim hope that someone would misinterpreted it, lol.
Do they as an organized group even exist?
No VNC
Yeah, at least the ones I used have some kind of console/terminal you can use and often you can access BIOS and reinstall the OS if you want.
I don’t mean them specifically, but that to me managing access to such a CA cert’s keys is security nightmare, because if I somehow get an infection, and it finds the cert file and the private key, it’ll be much easier for it to make itself more persistent than I want it.
If you can’t resist installing random shit on your CA server then sure. No attacker will really try to compromise a home CA so you really only have to worry about viruses which should be kept extremely far from the CA anyways. And obviously follow all other security precautions like good passwords or even passwordless with certificate login (remember that you have a CA server so you can easily issue authentication certificates and enroll them on a smart card or Yubikey)
The private key should also be in TPM (or a HSM like we do at work, but that’s a bit extreme for home use) and be non-exportable. Managing access to the private key isn’t really that hard, it should just never ever leave the CA server and you are pretty much good to go.
You can also do a two tier PKI with an offline CA and an issuing CA like I’m planning to do for an AD DS, AD CS, AD FS lab.
Personally I think wildcard certificates sound like a bigger security problem than a CA since that certificates will likely be placed on a lot of servers and if just a single one gets compromised the attacker can impersonate whatever subdomain they feel like. With a CA server you could issue individual certificates to each server/service
Private CA servers are very common and is actually a security positive. I’m not saying that everyone needs one at home, but you shouldn’t be afraid to setup one if you want too.
I switched to AirVPN right after I used mullvad but I was not that happy with their speeds (max speeds were around 500-600 Mbit/s), so I now use Proton. Proton is nice except that the port changes with every connection. Fortunately I found a fork of the VPN app that has support for automatically changing the port in qbittorrent. Other than that I’m pretty happy with Proton. :)
What do you mean?
Of course their own CA can sign certificates for whatever the fuck it wants, but it’s their CA so why would they do that?
You obviously shouldn’t trust anyone else’s CA unless you actually trust it. But if you don’t trust your own CA what’s the point of having a CA?
P.S. I’m guessing OP doesn’t actually have a CA and is just using simple self signed certificates without any private CA that has signed them.
Agreed. I really dislike editorialised titles.
Mullvad is great. I unfortunately had to switch because they removed port forwarding, but I highly wish they didn’t.
Moode maybe.
Well, I at least chuckled.
Yeah, absolutely!
I actually like the change.
It’s just that it will create a lot of work for us (especially for me and my colleague) short term. I would very much appreciate it if Google actually bothered to give an exact timeline (optimally a few months or a year in advance).
PSA: All public certificates (private internal certificates won’t be affected) will have a lifetime of only 90 days soon. Google is planning to reduce their lifetime in 2024 but considering that they haven’t given an update on this since early this year, I doubt it will happen this year.
But it will happen soon.
This will be a pain in the ass for my workplace because we primarily use Digicert and manually renewing certificates every 90 days is just impossible for use. We are currently looking into a way to switch to letsencrypt or similar.
Maybe…
We don’t know yet. It would depend on how it was integrated.
But yes you would need to crack the app.
Google didn’t really do anything wrong imo. App developers/publisher’s are the one that is actually using these APIs
You are the first person to ever bring it up.
I just answered the question you had.
Yeah, there is a lot they can do about it.
Email their CEOs or some shit instead.