• paying for others mistakes

    One of the ultimate annoyances is when we have to pay for mistakes made by others or, worst yet, those made by an automated system with no oversight. Without making it overly personal, in my case it is a medical billing issue – that is being billed for work not performed because it could not…

  • homelab XCA

    For a variety of reasons I have been struggling with implementing Smallstep over the past few days. Struggling so much so that I’ve returned to working with XCA. Looks promising. Hope to have a few certificates issued tomorrow. Will provide an update then.

  • missed yesterday

    Upon waking today, one of the first thoughts I had was: Did I write yesterday? Of course, that means I didn’t. For some this would be no big deal, I haven’t figured out what this blog is about yet so missing a day is no big deal. Right? Although it isn’t a big deal, it…

  • homelab SmallStep

    In my quest to issue self signed certifications to machines in the homelab, I first went down the OpenSSL path. Then XCA and now SmallStep. I think the SmallStep configuration may be a winner but then again I thought that about pure OpenSSL and XCA so we will see. Should know by tomorrow. Regardless, this…