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Several comments here mention running your own CA. Maybe that could be a signed intermediate CA with the Name Constraint extension [0] (and critical bit?), but one roadblock on this path is that allegedly Apple devices do not support that extension (edit: actually this was fixed! see reply). You there, @ LetsEncrypt?

To address the article a recent related discussion, "Analyzing the public hostnames of Tailscale users" [1], indicates in the title one reason you might not want to use LE for internal hostnames. There was a discussion about intermediate CAs there as well [2] with some more details.

[0]: http://pkiglobe.org/name_constraints.html

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29579806

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29614971

parent infogulch 4 years ago

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