@DustinB3403 If it is not DNS, firewall is always a problem lol. Nice find.

@flaxking said in SSL/TLS client certificates questions:

Domain name doesn't matter, unless you're signing with a public CA. I'd think self-signed vs internal CA vs public CA would depend on what the authentication mechanism supports and how you have to manage the certificates. (i.e. if there are going to be a ton of them it might be easier for the authentication mechanism just to trust certificates signed by a certain internal CA rather than having to make each certificate trusted.

From what I've seen so far, I've come to the same conclusion.

@scottalanmiller said in NextCloud SSL Cert:

@JaredBusch hard to resist the call of the Natty Light.

I ran out of Blue Moon.

Date/Time issue?

@FATeknollogee said in Setup a Cloudflare Origin Certificate for use on a backend server:

@scottalanmiller said in Setup a Cloudflare Origin Certificate for use on a backend server:

@FATeknollogee said in Setup a Cloudflare Origin Certificate for use on a backend server:

noob question here:
If you're hosting on Cloudflare, this should be used instead of LE?

Not about "should", it's about which makes more sense for you in a given situation.

"could" would probably have been a better word choice.

Yup, you definitely can 🙂

Didn't we have one of these threads last year?

tags - please?

Found this which didn't help, but could be a useful reference in the future...

OpenSSL Convert PEM
Convert PEM to DER

openssl x509 -outform der -in certificate.pem -out certificate.der

Convert PEM to P7B

openssl crl2pkcs7 -nocrl -certfile certificate.cer -out certificate.p7b -certfile CACert.cer

Convert PEM to PFX

openssl pkcs12 -export -out certificate.pfx -inkey privateKey.key -in certificate.crt -certfile CACert.crt

OpenSSL Convert DER
Convert DER to PEM

openssl x509 -inform der -in certificate.cer -out certificate.pem

OpenSSL Convert P7B
Convert P7B to PEM

openssl pkcs7 -print_certs -in certificate.p7b -out certificate.cer

Convert P7B to PFX

openssl pkcs7 -print_certs -in certificate.p7b -out certificate.cer

openssl pkcs12 -export -in certificate.cer -inkey privateKey.key -out certificate.pfx -certfile CACert.cer

OpenSSL Convert PFX
Convert PFX to PEM

openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.pfx -out certificate.cer -nodes

@black3dynamite said in NGINX Reverse Proxy Help - Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG:

In the server block, add ssl_protocols TLSv1.2; and reload nginx

no joy. Incognito mode did not work either.

@dafyre said in Fedora 29 Apache HTTPD Keeps Adding ssl.conf:

Have you tried creating a blank ssl.conf file and then chmod +i ssl.conf ?

I've not, but that's such a hockie way of doing it, I was hoping not to.

@dustinb3403 said in Do you setup SSL for Intranet websites only:

Near-zero value in someone attacking is what I meant. Not a zero-value in what is provided by the systems. Also there is nothing confidential or needing "security" from a business perspective, which is why I ask is SSL worth it for these types of Intranet sites?

You need SSL for everything period. Even if it's a self-signed cert it's fine... just allow the exception in the web browser and be done, or use an internal certificate if your browsers are set to trust the root... or a domain wildcard cert would work just fine. It's easy to do.

You could set out a reverse proxy for use with Let's Encrypt, and use the reverse proxy for all of your internal-only web servers. On the reverse proxy, you can limit each site config to only pass internal IPs only. That's what I did for a few. For example, if you add this in:

allow 10.0.0.0/8; allow 172.16.0.0/12; allow 192.168.0.0/16; deny all;

It will not proxy anything unless it comes from an internal IP.

@phlipelder said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@scottalanmiller said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@phlipelder said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@scottalanmiller said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@phlipelder said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@jaredbusch said in Get Wildcard SSL Certs for IIS on Windows with LetsEncrypt:

@scottalanmiller my problem with Certs on Windows, in general, is that you almost always have to copy it around to multiple servers to make everything work well, and that jsut defeats the purpose of LE.

Based on what is on the site, Microsoft has an intrinsic trust with LE's root store. I should be able to set up a RD Session Host with a LE certificate for publishing and there should be no untrusted publisher for RemoteApps or Session Host desktops once the certificate's thumbprint is published via Group Policy?

One would hope that they would. LE is like the standard in SSL Certs. It's from the EFF, way more trustworthy than other cert authorities, IMHO.

Snag: Valid for 90 days. In larger RDS farm settings this would be a bear to manage. That means the need for an automated process.

It is expected to be automated. SSL Cert updates should not be intrusive. All of the tools for LE SSL Certs are designed around the idea that you will automate them and never need to worry about them again. It's about being less of a snag, not more of one.

Got it thanks. Looks like a bit of a learning curve then. 🙂

It's not bad. I find learning the LE pieces easier than learning to do it the old fashioned way 🙂 And with LE it is "learn once and ignore", rather than "learn once, forget, do again in a year or two all over again."

And this person has a full guide https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/3775/xen-orchestra-from-source-with-let-s-encrypt-certificates

@psx_defector said in IIS Security setup:

Best practice isn't up to date.

Set it to PCI 1.2, that disables TLS1.0, all the AES stuff, etc. etc. You can also disable them manually in the first screen.

Great, thanks.

I had some confusion because of the age of the old CSR. It doesn't line up with the correct dates. I'll edit my original post when I know more.

I had the same problem:

Microsoft includes a command-line utility with Certificate Services called certutil. This utility performs various operations on certificate files, including converting them to and from base64 format.

Note that this command is run on your certificate server, which, in your environment, may be different from your Exchange server. If so, you need to copy the binary .req file to the certificate server, or make it accessible via a shared network folder or removable storage device.

Open a command prompt on the certificate server and navigate to the folder where your binary .req file is, then type the following command:

certutil -encode yourbinaryinputfile yourasciioutputfile

Example:
certutil -encode der.exchange.example.com.req pem.exchange.example.com.req
You can then open the output file in Notepad and confirm that it is in the correct format to upload to your certifying authority.

@travisdh1 Sometimes you never know!