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minica is a small, simple CA intended for use in situations where the CA operator also operates each host where a certificate will be used.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2018-08-13 · latest 2025-02-16

Mentions per year 9 mentions · busiest year 2020 (3)
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  1. …At least I havent ever run into any cache issues with local resolvers. I have previously used https://github.com/jsha/minica which makes it at least easy to create a root certificate and matching server cert. How to get that root cert…
  2. …your own CA cert. For example: https://smallstep.com/blog/build-a-tiny-ca-with-raspberry-pi... or https://github.com/jsha/minica
    comment by codetrotter · 2024-06-03 · in Special-use domain 'home.arpa.' (2018)
  3. MiniCA[0] works for this, quite trivial to setup and stamp out certs. [0] https://github.com/jsha/minica
    comment by gilad · 2023-07-11 · in Easy HTTPS for your private networks
  4. I found minica very useful to do something like this (no affiliation): https://github.com/jsha/minica
    comment by martinflack · 2022-06-22 · in The Illustrated QUIC Connection
  5. https://github.com/jsha/minica has been around longer and has met all my home lab needs so far. It's even plugged on LetsEncrypt-- https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost .
  6. …of my hosts are available as somehostname.local on all clients with Avahi/Bonjour installed. [0] https://github.com/jsha/minica
    comment by aljarry · 2020-11-17 · in Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
  7. There's a great tool for this called minica https://github.com/jsha/minica
    comment by jchook · 2020-11-16 · in Being your own Certificate Authority
  8. …interested in the "minimal" aspect of this project, there is a similar one with a single Go file: https://github.com/jsha/minica
  9. …I also like how small it is; I just embedded it in the development scripts of the project. [0] https://github.com/jsha/minica [1] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/