• solrize@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Browsers barf at non https now. What are we supposed to do about certificates?

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      3 months ago

      Nothing, this is not about that.

      This change gives you the guarantee that .internal domains will never be registered officially, so you can use them without the risk of your stuff breaking should ICANN ever decide to make whatever TLD you’re using an official TLD.

      That scenario has happened in the past, for example for users of FR!TZBox routers which use fritz.box. .box became available for purchase and someone bought fritz.box, which broke browser UIs. This could’ve even been used maliciously, but thankfully it wasn’t.

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      3 months ago

      Either ignore like I do or add a self signed cert to trusted root and use that for your services. Will work fine unless you’re letting external folks access your self hosted stuff.

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        Private CA is the only way for domains which cannot be resolved on the Internet

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        3 months ago

        How do you propose to get LetsEncrypt to offer you a certificate for a domain name you do not and cannot control?

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      3 months ago

      Quite literally my first thought. Great, but I can’t issue certs against that.

      One of the major reasons I have a domain name is so that I can issue certs that just work against any and all devices. For resources on my network. Home or work, some thing.

      To folks recommending a private CA, that’s a quick way to some serious frustration. For some arguably good reasons. On some devices I could easily add a CA to, others are annoying or downright bullshit, and yet others are pretty much impossible. Then that last set that’s the most persnickety, guests, where it’d be downright rude!

      Being able to issue public certs is easily is great! I don’t use .local much because if it’s worth naming, it’s worth securing.

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            3 months ago

            So you can access your router’s config page without blasting your password in plaintext or getting certificate warnings. It’s an optional feature.

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        3 months ago

        Same thing we do with .local - “click here to proceed (unsafe)” :D

        Set up my work’s network waay back on NT4. 0 as .local cuz I was learning and didn’t know any better, has been that way ever since.

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      3 months ago

      You can set up your own CA, sign certs and distribute the root to every one of your devices if you really wanted to.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah I know about that, I’ve done it. It’s just a PITA to do it even slightly carefully.

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        That sounds like a bad idea, you would need your CA and your root certs to be completely air gapped for it to be even remotely safe.

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            3 months ago

            For self hosting at least, having your own CA is a pain in the ass to make sure everything is safe and that nobody except you has access to your CA root key.
            I’m not saying it’s not doable, but it’s definitely a lot of work and potentially a big security risk if you’re not 100% certain of what you’re doing.

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              3 months ago

              Just use only VPN to access your services behind the reverse proxy, if you want prevent unauthorised connections.

              CA certificates are not here to prevent someone accessing a site, they are here, so that you can be sure, that the server you are talking to is really the one belonging to the domain you entered and to establish a tunnel in order to send the API calls (html, css, javascript etc.) and answers encrypted.

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                That’s the problem, if anyone somehow gets your root CA key, your encryption is pretty much gone and they can sign whatever they want with your CA.
                It’s a lot of work to make sure it’s safe in a home setup.

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                  You can just issue new certificates one per year, and otherwise keep your personal root CA encrypted. If someone is into your system to the point they can get the key as you use it, there are bigger things to worry about than them impersonating your own services to you.

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                    3 months ago

                    And additionally, you can sign intermediate Certificates reducing the risk even more, since you can revoke and re-issue new ones any time.

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          What if I told you, businesses routinely do this to their own machines in order to make a deliberate MitM attack to log what their employees do?

          In this case, it’d be a really targetted attack to break into their locally hosted server, to steal the CA key, and also install a forced VPN/reroute in order to service up MitM attacks or similar. And to what end? Maybe if you’re a billionaire, I’d suggest not doing this. Otherwise, I’d wonder why you’d (as in the average user) be the target of someone that would need to spend a lot of time and money doing the reconnaissance needed to break in to do anything bad.

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            3 months ago

            Ah, you mean they put the cert in a transparent proxy which logs all traffic? Neat idea, I should try it at home

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              They (the service that provides both web protection and logging) installs their own root certificate. Then creates certs for sites on demand, and it will route web traffic through their own proxy, yes.

              It’s why I don’t do anything personal at all on the work laptop. I know they have logs of everything everyone does.

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            I’m talking about home hosting and private keys. Not businesses with people whose full time job is to make sure everything runs fine.
            I’m a nobody and I regularly have people/bots testing my router. I’m not monitoring my whole setup yet and if someone gets in I would probably not notice until it’s too late.
            So hosting my own CA is a hassle and a security risk I’m not willing to put work into.

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      3 months ago

      I found options like .local and now .internal way too long for my private stuff. So I managed to get a two-letter domain from some obscure TLD and with Cloudflare as DNS I can use Caddy to get Let’s Encrypt certs for hosts that resolve to 10.0.0.0/8 IPs. Caddy has plugins for other DNS providers, if you don’t want to go with Cloudflare.

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        3 months ago

        Might be an idea to not use any public A records and just use it for cert issuance, and Stick with private resolvers for private use.

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          It’s a domain with hosts that all resolve to private IP addresses. I don’t care if someone manages to see hosts like vaultwarden, cloud, docs or photos through enumeration if they all resolve to 10.0.0.0/8 addresses. Setting up a private resolver and private PKI is just too much of a bother.

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            3 months ago

            My set up is similar to this but I’m using wildcards.

            So all my containers are on 10.0.0.0/8, and public dns server resolves *.sub.domain.com to 10.0.0.2, which is a reverse proxy for the containers.

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      Maybe browsers could be configured to automatically accept the first certificate they see for a given .internal domain, and then raise a warning if it ever changes, probably with a special banner to teach the user what an .internal name means the first time they see one

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        The main reason this will never happen is that the browser vendors make massive revenue and profit margins off of The Cloud and would really prefer that the core concept of a LAN just dies so you pay your rent to them.