I’m curious what the benefits are of paying for SSL certificates vs using a free provider such as letsencrypt.

What exactly are you trusting a cert provider with and what are the security implications? What attack vectors do you open yourself up to when trusting a certificate authority with your websites’ certificates?

In what way could it benefit security and/or privacy to utilize a paid service?

And finally, which paid SSL providers are considered trustworthy?

I know Digicert is a big player, but their prices are insane. Comodo seems like a good affordable option, but is it a trustworthy company?

    • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Except for the learning process and if you want your self-signed local domains in your lan !

      https://jellyfin.homelab.domain is easier to access than IP addresses.

      • PlexSheep@infosec.pubEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        In that case, i recommend step-ca, which is a certificate authority server with acme support anyone can self host. The setup took a while but it’s been running for months now without problems for me.

        • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yeaaah I already played a bit arround with step-ca ! Right now a make a mini-CA with openssl.

          When I get more comfortable with how everything works together I will surely give step-ca another try.

          • PlexSheep@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I found open-ssl to be much harder to use. Do you just manually make new certificates with the CA in CLI?

        • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Can’t argue against that.

          However, I prefer local domain names accessible via Wireguard with self-signed certs. I like to understand how everything works under the hood !

          Also, I’m broke AF and buying a domain name (even cheap ones) are out of my budget :(.

          • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Numeric .xyz domains only cost $1 a year. They’re not great for things like mail because they’re often used by spammers (probably because of the price), but it’s great for cheap signed DNS hostnames.

            I point it to the server on my local network and use Wireguard to connect myself.