ECC Certificates and mTLS with Nginx

October 29, 2017

If you want to be truly paranoid about authentication to services, you can implement your own Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Many large organizations that are privacy focused have developed a digital/physical PKI strategy, for example the DoD’s Common Access Card. OpenSSL is a software that can be used to setup a “simple” PKI, however it’s command complexity is easy to get lost within. In this guide we’ll set up a “simple” PKI that we’ll use to authenticate users with, while still using the legitimately issued Let’s Encrypt Domain Validation certificates. ...