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Yeah :) Maybe give lychee a try :) it's minimalist and does one thing, but it does it well !!!

The reddiverse !

Oh nice tip, thank you ! It won't be that much of a difference I guess, but why would you let a wifi module on if it's never used !

Thanks for sharing this nice blocklist :)

Same here ! Although, sftpgo is a bit overkill if you only need it for webdav !

And let's be fair to them, who's even heard of lithium batteries catching fire?

Euhhhh... You sure about that? Maybe you're beeing sarcastic? But buses lithium batteries catching fire is not something unheard off ! Even a few Teslas burned to the ground went viral in the news !

I still need to find a "$35 Raspberry Pi" 🤣

This seems cool and is not off topic at all :) It does seem to answer to my "question" and seems a nice thing to have :) However, someone suggested Terraform but after some reading it's not the tool I was looking for... Ansible seems more the like I guess ! But coolify seems also very interesting ! Different and more similar to my current setup.

I think Terraform, Ansible, Tofu are the next generation tool to solve my current issue... They are declarative tools ! But I don't want to rush things and have another dead setup lying arround !

Thanks for your reply !

Edit: There's also an alternative https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy in case you didn't know :) If you know, can you tell me why you choose on over the other?

This is indeed similar ! And looks like a working certificate :) (You even use as .csr file).

The book adds something (Not very useful but kinda neat to have): a certificate revocation setup and an IntermediateCA signed by your rootCA. So you can keep your rootCA out of your system :)

(Thanks to darkan15 for explaining that).

I have to look at his answer to have a better understanding :P

The diagram would be useful. Considering that rn I’m losing my mind between man pages.

I'm working on it right now :) I'm a bit overwhelmed with my own LAN setup, and trying to get some feedback from other users :P

As for the book… I can’t accept. Just give me the name/ISBN and I’ll provide myself. Still. Thanks for the offer.

Good. If you have the money to spare please pay for it otherwise you know the drill :) (Myself I'm not able to pay the author so it's kinda hypocrite on my end... But doing some publicity is also some kind of help I guess?)

Demystifying Cryptography with OpenSSL 3 . 0 by Alexei Khlebnikov

ISBN: 978-1-80056-034-5

It's very well written, even as a non-native it was easy to follow :). However, let me give you something along the road, something that will save you hours of looking around the web :) !

Part 5, Chapter 12: Running a mini-CA is the part you're interested in and that's the part I used to create my server certificates.

HOWEVER: When he generates the private keys, he uses the ED448 algorithm, which is not going to work for SSL certificates because not a single browser accepts them right now (same thing goes for Curve25519). Long story short, If you don't want to depend on NIST curves (NSA) fall back to RSA in your homelab ! If you are interested in that story go to p123:

Brainpool curves are proposed by the Brainpool workgroup, a group of cryptographers that were dissatisfied with NIST curves because **NIST curves were not verifiably randomly generated, so they may have intentionally or accidentally weak security. **

Here is a working example for your certificates:

Book:

$ mkdir private
$ chmod 0700 private
$ openssl genpkey \
    -algorithm ED448 \
    -out private/root_keypair.pem

But should be:

$ mkdir private
$ chmod 0700 private
$ openssl genpkey \
    -algorithm RSA \
    -out private/root_keypair.pem

You have to use RSA or whatever curve you prefer but accepted by your browser for EVERY key you generate !

Other than that, it's a great reading book :) And good study material for cryptography introduction !

Sorry, what do you mean by physical/logical diagrams :S! You mean something like Excalidraw ?

I did It for sometimes, but If I do some changes in my setup I always have to keep that update too.. So I have to think about it... I do like drawing those diagrams, but keeping those updated is sometimes not directly possible and I can get forgetful !

Thanks for the pointer :). I'm more into open source, so TrueNAS is maybe more fitting, however I'm not sure I do understand it right... Those are OSes? Not some application I can host in a container right? More like Proxmox ?