certificates Archives - Geek is the Way! https://geekistheway.com/tag/certificates/ Trying to learn just a bit! Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:08:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/geekistheway.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-Screen-Shot-2022-06-05-at-18.01.59.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 certificates Archives - Geek is the Way! https://geekistheway.com/tag/certificates/ 32 32 149526228 How to fix R3 CA/Certificate issue on pfSense (expired on September 29th, 2021) https://geekistheway.com/2021/10/18/how-to-fix-r3-ca-certificate-issue-on-pfsense-expired-on-september-29th-2021/ https://geekistheway.com/2021/10/18/how-to-fix-r3-ca-certificate-issue-on-pfsense-expired-on-september-29th-2021/#respond Mon, 18 Oct 2021 23:58:20 +0000 https://crepaldi.us/?p=919 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...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2021/10/18/how-to-fix-r3-ca-certificate-issue-on-pfsense-expired-on-september-29th-2021/feed/ 0 919 How to fix the X3 CA/Certificate issue after upgrading to pfSense 2.5 https://geekistheway.com/2021/02/26/how-to-fix-x3-ca-certificate-issue-on-pfsense-after-upgrade-to-2-5/ https://geekistheway.com/2021/02/26/how-to-fix-x3-ca-certificate-issue-on-pfsense-after-upgrade-to-2-5/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:22:23 +0000 http://crepaldi.us/?p=643 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...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2021/02/26/how-to-fix-x3-ca-certificate-issue-on-pfsense-after-upgrade-to-2-5/feed/ 7 643 Install Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates on your Supermicro X10 from Synology on a schedule https://geekistheway.com/2021/02/15/install-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificates-on-your-supermicro-x10-from-synology-on-a-schedule/ https://geekistheway.com/2021/02/15/install-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificates-on-your-supermicro-x10-from-synology-on-a-schedule/#respond Tue, 16 Feb 2021 01:27:44 +0000 http://crepaldi.us/?p=632 Recently I have added a Supermicro X10DRi-T4+ to my homelab and a natural idea was to install a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate and replace the original self-signed one. For such, I had to adapt a couple python scripts [1] [2] first published by Jari Turkia. None of them worked for Supermicro X10DRi-T4+, but it wasn’t...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2021/02/15/install-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificates-on-your-supermicro-x10-from-synology-on-a-schedule/feed/ 0 632 Setting up Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates on your pfSense https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/27/setting-up-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificates-on-your-pfsense/ https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/27/setting-up-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificates-on-your-pfsense/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2020 22:38:09 +0000 http://crepaldi.us/?p=269 In a previous post, I have described how to issue Let’s Encrypt certificates for free. SSL certificates have many applications, including replacing self-signed certificates that are not recognized by browsers. That is the goal of this post. Replace pfSense’s self-signed certificate by the one we have created using Let’s Encrypt API. Let’s Encrypt setup If...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/27/setting-up-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificates-on-your-pfsense/feed/ 1 269 Issuing Let’s Encrypt certificates on your pfSense using ACME! https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/25/issuing-lets-encrypt-certificates-on-your-pfsense-using-acme/ https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/25/issuing-lets-encrypt-certificates-on-your-pfsense-using-acme/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2020 01:53:00 +0000 http://crepaldi.us/?p=239 If you are like me and don’t want unencrypted data flowing on your network or maybe even on Internet, than this post is for you! I will adopt CloudFlare DNS as it has API to integrate with Let’s Encrypt SSL services through the ACME plugin. Both CloudFlare and Let’s Encrypt are free, so that is...

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