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ViperGeek
Dec 15, 2016Apprentice
Status:
Engineering Investigation
Enhancement Request: User-supplied SSL certificates for remote management
There is currently no way to install a proper PKI-chained SSL certificate from a third party like Comodo or StartCom SSL. With all current versions of the NETGEAR firmware, when enabling HTTPS acces...
schumaku
Mar 29, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Well, we're in the Home environment here, so these must be considered consumer devices. Let's Encrypt is a nice solution for this market, as most consumers don't have own domains anyway. The same - lack of a bind ot a customer owned certificate - on the other hand is one of the trust-stopper for that CA. Doing false (say hype) marketing for ACxxxx, AD7200, AX6000 or AX11000 - all numbers most peoplne never see - have priority to keep the market aehm Dollars rolling. With the ability to generate CSRs, to import certificates, there isn't much business to generate. Figure. With thid kind of delay politics, the EoL for many of these devices will come long before they change from their late 1990s router specs. Sad but true.