fix self signed certificate compatibility #18
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Unfortunately #17 is silent to the user and because of the current design it's difficult to make it explicit. Ideally chalet would self-heal in this case but that would introduce quite a lot of complexity. Maybe I can add a note to the What do you think is best? |
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Self signed certificate work fine (as in browser will let me proceed) with these new settings: Chromium 90 / Fedora 34 Firefox Developer Edition 89.0b15 / Fedora 34 |
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@sonnyp, thanks for putting in the time for this. I actually steer clear of using the self-signed certificates in chalet, mostly cause they cause a headache with things like Safari. My personal setup is Caddy + dnsmasq, with a delegation to chalet for configurable command line reverse proxy. Probably not the easiest setup, but I wonder if there is a place here where chalet can improve on. I'm all for adding a note in the |
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Alternatively we can write an FAQ and link it in the README, cause this issue probably will happen when a self-signed certificate expires. Edit: Created one here that u can link to https://github.com/jeansaad/chalet/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#what-can-i-do-if-my-certificate-expires-or-i-have-a-certificate-problem |
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This PR solves a different problem than self signed certificates expiring. |
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Yes, fair enough; however, the solution to regenerate the certs is the same, no? |
Closes jeansaad#17 Default keySize is 1024 and algorithm which is not enough nowadays. Default algorithm is sha1 which is deprecated. https://security.googleblog.com/2014/09/gradually-sunsetting-sha-1.html See https://github.com/jfromaniello/selfsigned/blob/c5ac42bdb5949bce47679221284331cab71a1e1e/README.md#options
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I understand now you were talking about letting users know how to "heal" the problem. I've added an entry in the FAQ. |
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@sonnyp, this has been merged and released! Thanks for the contribution! |
Fixes #17
Default keySize is 1024 which is not enough nowadays.
Default algorithm is sha1 which is deprecated. https://security.googleblog.com/2014/09/gradually-sunsetting-sha-1.html
See https://github.com/jfromaniello/selfsigned/blob/c5ac42bdb5949bce47679221284331cab71a1e1e/README.md#options