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Introduction[edit | edit source]
This section is to assist you in the basics of certificates, how to generate them or even a few examples of free Certificate authorities and even some paid ones
Pros and Cons[edit | edit source]
The pros of securing your home lab with certificates is if you are accessing this via the web you know your data and/or credentials are 'safe' within transit. I use the word safe as this depends on the cipher used and any known vulnerabilities that crop up. For example the heartbleed bug [[1]]
Costs[edit | edit source]
Free to £$£$ hundreds
Use Cases[edit | edit source]
The use cases for this type of technology can be used in SSL VPNs, RDP Web Access, Citrix Netscalers, VMware vCenter/Horizon desktops
Known Issues and Solutions[edit | edit source]
- Self Signed certificates
- Self signed certficates can be used for free but wont be trusted by any machine outside your domain
- Free CA's
- There are some free CA's such as https://www.startssl.com/ (no longer issuing as of 1 Jan 2018) or the latest up coming project https://letsencrypt.org/ as well as https://www.sslforfree.com/
- Paid for CA's
- There are a few common CA's you can use such as https://www.digicert.com or https://ssl.comodo.com/free-ssl-certificate.php who offer a free 90 day trial so you can make sure you are happy