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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • End users should start getting used to that expired certificate warning in their browser of choice and the process to tell it to continue to the site anyway.

    We already have a lot of this, and it’s definitely gonna get worse. Is a security dance so convoluted that people are used to others just messing up really an effective process?

    Given the biggest breaches were caused by default passwords and misconfigured S3 outhouses, are we focusing on the right stuff today?



  • manual renewals with Digicert has been a pain in the ass. If anyone has experience with their automated option I’d love to hear it.

    Aren’t they RFC8555-compatible?

    Yep, seems so:

    ACME Directory URLs – Get certificate-level automation for Extended Validation (EV) and Organization Validated (OV) certificates. Manage multiple ACME clients, running on Windows or Linux so you can efficiently automate certificate delivery regardless of the quantity of certificates you’re managing. Improve the security of using ACME in your network through our CertCentral discovery sensors. The sensor is an extra layer of security, ensuring the ACME client doesn’t directly speak to an unsecure third party.

    If you search for RFC8555 or ACME, you may find a tool you can use that may be compatible for renewing Digicert certs automatically.

    I’d love to actually help, but honestly I knew the RFC offhand (correction; I was close but off) and googled the rest myself, so dragging the problem to ACME - like RFK dragging the carcass of a deer back to his sedan - is the best I can do for you today.



  • Why not use self-signed certificates and have each search engine indexer also index the certificate and point out how long it has been since it has changed so that you can trust whatever search engine you wish instead of these mega centralized providers of certificates.

    Freshness isn’t an indicator of validity. The fence around the nearby park is decades old and with inspection and minor repairs is still viable; commercials on TV promising mail-order boner pills or vast riches from slots and roulette are relatively new.




  • Has anybody been able to build a statically linked binary

    The question should by why you’d want to. Careful if your reply is something about ‘one binary to work on a very diverse arrangement of library pinnings’ because the next question would be ‘why would you think that’s either achievable or valuable as a goal’; and toss in a ‘why try to ship the same binary in several different repos anyway’ bonus question.

    In short, if your biggest problem is how to build a binary that works everywhere, you have a lot of questions about responsible build/release processes to answer, and they will be embarrassing for you.