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yklee
Apr 01, 2020Aspirant
Expired tls certificate for RBR40 in firmware 2.3.5.32
The certificate on the Orbi RBR40 router model expired on 3rd August 2019. Would have thought Netgear would have noticed and updated it in the 8 months since. And apparently while this is being f...
yklee
Apr 02, 2020Aspirant
just expected better of netgear; really makes one think twice before making another purchase from netgear... Today's nighthawks and wifi 6 gear are all going to be their future abandonware.
i mean, seriously, if netgear cannot even manage a self-signed cert, the decent thing would be to at least allow advanced users to substitute their own certs through the webadmin portal, its trivial programming.
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i mean, seriously, if netgear cannot even manage a self-signed cert, the decent thing would be to at least allow advanced users to substitute their own certs through the webadmin portal, its trivial programming.
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CrimpOn
Apr 02, 2020Guru - Experienced User
SSL certs appear to be a bit more complicated that I had originally thought (ignorance being "bliss" for sure).
My impression is that the problem with self-signed certs is not that Netgear "messed it up", but that browsers have a table of recognized certificate authorities which they will trust and no self-signed cert is going to be recognized as one of those authorities. I suspect this because at least a couple of times a year one of the Microsoft updates has a comment about "Updating Certificate Authorities".