On Wednesday, September 29th 2021 a widely used Certificate Authority (CA) from Let’s Encrypt expired and brought the world to its knees. Well, at least my homelab, anyways. The exact message would be something like “The following CA/Certificate entries are expiring: Certificate Authority: Acmecert: O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority R3, C=US” The fix is quite…
If you recently upgraded to pfSense 2.5, you may have received notifications about some CA/Certificate entries close to expiring. The exact message would be something like “The following CA/Certificate entries are expiring: Certificate Authority: Acmecert: O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority X3, C=US” The fix is quite simple, just visit System >> Cert Manager >> CAs…