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Let’s Encrypt Begins Supporting IP Address Certificates (linuxiac.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Who benefits from this? Even though Let’s Encrypt stresses that most site operators will do fine sticking with ordinary domain certificates, there are still scenarios where a numeric identifier is the only practical choice:

Infrastructure services such as DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) – where clients may pin a literal IP address for performance or censorship-evasion reasons.
IoT and home-lab devices – think network-attached storage boxes, for example, living behind static WAN addresses.
Ephemeral cloud workloads – short-lived back-end servers that spin up with public IPs faster than DNS records can propagate.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Can I get a cert for 127.0.0.1 ? /s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you can get their servers to connect to that IP under your control, you've earned it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Nothing a ski mask and a little mission impossible can’t fix :)

[–] howrar 106 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How many bits is a /s mask?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Is that the same i as the squareroot of -1?

[–] skankhunt42 12 points 2 days ago

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago

This would actually be useful for local testing of software during development.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The down votes are from people who work in IT support that have to deal with idiots that play with things they dont understand.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s unfortunate they don’t know what /s means

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It obviously means "secure"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

We do, it's just that those users will also often go "nah, I'm just joking!" then do some shit anyways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

nah, I was once an idiot who didn't understand so idgaf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, the unfortunate part about internet security is that everyone has to start somewhere. And that means there’s always a newbie making dumb mistakes that they don’t even realize are dumb. It’s not a personal failing, unless they fail to learn from it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

How do I setup a reverse proxy for pure TCP? /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You can based on the port.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Think that's called NATing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's called buying more static IPs and making your ISP deal with it haha