doc: gRPC SSL certificate documentation improvements #7731
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Adds some additional documentation around generating custom gRPC SSL certificates.
gprc
page instead of redirecting toapp-development
.Context
After struggling with properly generating custom certificates for a long time while trying to run the API under both Tor and SSL, as well as allow another local service to communicate with the gRPC APIs, I'm submitting the process that worked for me as candidate for documentation improvements. From memory, the problematic issues were:
SAN
from the original default certificate, includinglocalhost
,127.0.0.1
andcln
etc.CN
for the "production" domain, but browsers and other common SSL client libraries complain that verification viaSAN
is required and throw an error (as of circa 2017?).Caveat
Not exactly an SSL expert here, so a review on best practices would be appreciated. I used the following resources to assemble this solution:
Also, this page suggests it could be possible to do this with a one-liner due to this
openssl
commit. Just saying, there may be a better way to do this.