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If you're doing it from the machine where your CA is, and using secure transport, then it shouldn't be less secure than doing the CSR/Sign/Certificate dance. I
by labawi 7y ago
If you're doing it from the machine where your CA is, and using secure transport, then it shouldn't be less secure than doing the CSR/Sign/Certificate dance.
I mean, it would be nice, especially if you are distributing to other people, but I don't really see a difference if we are talking about uploading cert/keys to servers where you have root access.
- Mister_Snuggles 7y agoMy desire to learn how this works still applies. But if I'm dealing with this sort of thing in outside of my homelab it'd be nice to see how it all works. I figure that learning how the CSR dance works in my homelab will help me understand how it works in the real world.