2.5 years ago, I migrated all my services hosted on a cloud provider to a homeserver.

This homeserver is also my workstation/gaming/dev/everything. I use QubesOS (an operating system based on the Xen hypervisor), and wrote some document about it: https://neowutran.ovh/qubes/articles/homeserver.pdf

Basically, I am hosting:

  • DNS
  • Matrix
  • Email
  • Jitsi
  • Mumble
  • Peertube
  • Screego
  • Nextcloud
  • Searxng
  • Tor
  • Wireguard VPN
  • Copy of wikipedia
  • Personal website And others.

And for TLS, to have better security, and to avoid relying on third party company/providers, I am using DANE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Named_Entities

https://sr.ht/~yukikoo/dane_without_root/

https://github.com/buffrr/letsdane

The “dane_without_root” is one of my projects and I am welcoming review / feedback on it

( I also posted about it on the QubesOS forum: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/highlighting-neowutrans-technical-doc-about-qubes )

  • neowutran@feddit.orgOPEnglish
    91·
    4 days ago

    Yes, this part is intentional to raise questions and remark :)

    The certificate on my website is not valid using the WebPKI standard, but is valid using the DANE standard. It is related to my comment for this project https://sr.ht/~yukikoo/dane_without_root/ .

    My issue with the WebPKI model is that any government or big company on the planet could do a MITM on your connection, generate a certificate valid for any website, and get a read/write access to all your webpki TLS communications. The DANE model is an improvement over webpki because instead of the “anyone (every ca / intermediate certificate) can generate a certificate valid for anyone” model, it bring a hierarchical trust structure.

    • greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      You missed my point

      It doesn’t work for the user, so it doesn’t work.

      Its about equivalent to the user as installing your own cert.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        the repo readme writes about this. Firefox does not yet support DANE, it needs a patch, included in the repo.

        • greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Which means I don’t care because nobody except myself will be able to use it.

          I’d care a lot if Firefox and Chrome supported it OOTB

              • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                3 days ago

                If you’re just pushing for WebPKI without “thinking too hard” about perpretrating a security system with a large number of failure points, then you’re following that windows method.

                SSL/TLS have very specific benefits. None of which matter that much for reading random articles on the web. So I don’t see the problem with this website doing their own thing to bring attention to the potential issues of the current system.

                • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  9 hours ago

                  SSL/TLS have very specific benefits. None of which matter that much for reading random articles on the web.

                  it is a huge benefit if a man in the middle cannot run scripts on your computer.

                  So I don’t see the problem with this website doing their own thing to bring attention to the potential issues of the current system.

                  there is no problem with that. this could work, with the required patch to firefox, also in the repo.

                  • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    1·
                    3 hours ago

                    IMO when reading random articles on the internet you already have to worry about untrusted scripts. I just use NoScript, and if the website requires Javascript I move on