{"repo":"hakwerk/labca","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/hakwerk/labca","clone":"git clone https://github.com/hakwerk/labca.git","description":"A private Certificate Authority for internal (lab) use, based on the open source ACME Automated Certificate Management Environment implementation from Let's Encrypt (tm).","language":"Go","stars":790,"topics":["certificate-authority","pki","go","acme","ca","tls","certificate","homelab","letsencrypt","acme-server"],"license":null,"category":"self-hosted-apps","readme_excerpt":"LabCA A private Certificate Authority for internal (lab) use, based on the open source ACME Automated Certificate Management Environment implementation from Let's Encrypt (tm). Table of Contents - Background - Startup - Usage - Troubleshooting - Standalone version for step-ca - Legacy Mode - Contributing - License Background More and more websites and applications are served over HTTPS, where all traffic between your browser and the web server is encrypted. With standard HTTP the (form) data is unencrypted and open to eavesdroppers and hackers listening to communications between the user and the website. Therefore the Chrome browser now even warns about unsafe plain HTTP sites to nudge users towards HTTPS. To a lesser extent this also applies to internal applications and sites that are not exposed publicly. Just because the users may have a higher level of trust versus users of a public facing website doesn't mean sensitive content shouldn't be protected as much as possible. Lots of hacking and theft occur from within a company's own walls, virtual or real. Also, no user should get used to ignoring any browser warnings (e.g. about self-signed certificates), even for internal sites. no user should get used to ignoring any browser warnings For the public internet, Let's Encrypt™ has made a big impact by providing free HTTPS certificates in an easy and automated way. There are many clients available to interact with their so called ACME (Automated Certificate Management En","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/hakwerk","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/hakwerk/labca/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}