A self signed certificate is signed with its own private key instead of the private key of a higher or publicly trusted certificate authority (CA).
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create a self-signed certificate for a subdomain, the main domain does not belong to me
I have my internet box provider who offers me a free subdomain to connect to my network, ex: xxxxx.provider.com
I have generated a self-signed certificate for the subdomain foo.provider.com
I tried to install it in windows but it does not validate…

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How does load balancer verify self-signed certificates from the server
In my application, I have multiple instances of the server running behind a load balancer.
Usually, SSL offloading takes place at the load-balancer in the case of AWS Application Load Balancers, and the connection between the ALB and server…

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How to make squid proxy to accept self-signed certificate?
I have an use-case were I have to accept self-signed certificate in Squid.
The endpoints are Kubernetes clusters using self-signed certificates. The clusters will be recreated on demand with different self-signed certificate and therefore the need…

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Replace Self Signed RDP Cert with CA Signed Cert
A few servers are getting picked up by security scans with the following message:
The following certificate was at the top of the certificate chain sent by the remote host, but it is signed by an unknown certificate authority. | Subject :…

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Which clients support self-signed certificates with DANE?
We've been considering to make more use of DANE as a decentralised authority for our certificates.
Especially with S/MIME.
However, the key obstacle is... how widely are DANE treated as an authority with mail clients?
Is there a list with all the…

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Generate end-entity certificate with OpenSSL for localhost on IIS
I would like to ask how to generate end entity certificate based on my own CA root certificate?
I've generated root CA this way:
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -sha256 -days 3650 -nodes \
-keyout example.key -out example.crt -subj…

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making HTTPS work on LAN with self signed certificate
This is on a local area network (LAN). There is no internet connection. One admin has admin access to both the linux server and windows10 pc's.
I have a linux server running third party software to establish an over-the-network OpenGL remote…

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Unable to Backup or Restore Certificate Authority?
I migrated Certificate Authority Enterprise from windows server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2019. Both Server are VMs
Here are the steps I took:
Baskup CA database, key and registry config of the windows server 2012
Unplug the network for the windows…

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How to add a header to my apache2 server
I have an apache2 web server for testing only (not a production server). It is running on Ubuntu 18.04. I have configured it with TLS. I want to add a header. So I navigated to this file:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf
The file…

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How long it takes for the Issued certificates to reach the requester's computer?
Windows server 2019 with CA role, made a certificate template and enabled the option "CA certificate manager approval" in it, then issued it on my CA server. now on a client I went to the personal certificate store and requested that certificate,…
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Cannot validate certificate hostname without SNI
I am using 2 proxies to intercept the communication between my phone and my server. Here is my topology:
phone --> proxy 1 --> proxy 2 --> server
proxy1 is listening to port 8080, proxy 2 is listening to port 8080 but I redirect all what it gets to…

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Apache 2.4 mutual authentication - AH01797: client denied by server configuration
So I'm trying to set up Apache 2.4 mutual authentication on a virtual host configuration.
Given the below environment, what am I missing?
Server is: Slackware 14.2 x64, Apache 2.4.39, OpenSSL 1.0.2r
Client is: Windows 8.1 x64, Firefox Quantum 66.0.3…

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Self-signed certificate for SSTP VPN server
I'm developing a custom VPN solution that needs to support SSTP for Windows clients. For this, the SSTP specifications (and Windows) require my server to authenticate itself using a certificate during the SSL handshake. Windows will then use its…

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How to create self-signed certificate to sign Office macros
I need to create a self-signed certificate which I can use to sign different kind of Office macros (for Outlook, Excel etc.).
I must be able to use this certificate on all workstations in my domain, so about 40 different computers. They all use the…

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Node.js HTTPS error (SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP) - no common encryption algorithm(s)
I have seen other similar questions but non addresses my problem. I have generated my TLS (openSSL) Self-Signed certificate, but seems not working on my NodeJS server.
Instructions to generate SSL
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout key.pem -x509…

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