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Trust the gandi.net CA on OpenBSD

    

This website provides some HTTPS service. I bought the SSL certificate from a French provider called “Gandi”. Unfortunately, it seems their issuer is not known by OpenBSD nor is their own CA trusted by Firefox. As this is in the FAQ, they provide the CA file to manually import in Firefox. Once done, Firefox trusts the whole SSL path. We’ll use this to install the SSL trust path in OpenBSD ; in the OpenSSL instance.

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My SMTP cheat sheet

    

Today is the day when my SMTP server didn’t want me to relay mail after authentication… This is probably my fault as I may have change something without remembering it. Anyway, here the commands to use to talk SMTP to your favorite server.

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Back to the sea ; the Certificate Authority (CA), episode IV

    

OpenBSD FAQ and manpages is full of “how to generate your self-signed certificate”. That’s OK. But I you get several services, as I’m gonna get, this means you’ll have to deploy every certificate to every client so that they trust them. Creating your own CA enables you to only deploy the CA file to your client. Then, they will trust any certificate that were signed by it. Plus, it’s fun :p

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My NetBSD Certificate Authority (CA) with OpenSSL

    

I created a private certificate authority with OpenSSL on NetBSD tu use in my personal LAN. The certificates are used to authenticate servers in SSL/TLS mode and also to remotely connect to my LAN using VPN.

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