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mihirk
New Member
March 6, 2020
Question

SSL Certificate Inspection: CA Signed Cert or Self-Signed Cert?

  • March 6, 2020
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So I am trying to setup policies and of course almost all of them require SSL inspection enabled.

 

I did issue the cert from the domain controller which is self-signed and imported it to the firewall.

Of course it will throw an error saying that it is not a valid ssl cert unless I install that cert as Trusted Root on all PCs. If we get a cert from trusted CA then how would that work?

 

Would I be using any of the following information: Public IP: xx.xxx.xxx.xxx Domain Name: xyz.local (AD Domain) or xyz.com (A domain we own). Would SSL inspection still work if I get the CA signed cert for xyz.com domain?

 

I am pretty new to the SSL and certificates world so I have not much of an idea how things work.

1 reply

mj75
New Member
May 27, 2020

Hello,

 

UP subject !!

I have a same problem.

 

An idea ?

emnoc
New Member
May 27, 2020

1st no public CA is going to issue you a CA-root cert, that is not feasible nor a option to buy just a rootCA-cert

 

Your rootCA is that "your" root certificate, you just trust that in the OS or Firefox browser as a trusted rootCA and be done.

 

Ken Felix

 

sw2090
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 28, 2020

yeah but they do issue sub-ca certs Ken. Those can be used to sign certificates. The dark side is that this creates one more hop in certificate verification path that has to be covered :\