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Mentioned this last time, but since I didn't see it elsewhere in the thread, will mention it again... what about LAN resources served over HTTP like NAS, Printer, AP, etc.? These devices don't have DNS, forget about about SSL.

Is the entire local subnet going to be a secure origin like localhost? Because that sounds problematic... What I want is a way to single-click pin a self-signed certificate to "turn it green".



These devices don't have DNS

They should, via mDNS AKA Zeroconf AKA Bonjour AKA Avahi. Often, printer-name.local port 80 or port 631 will lead to the printer's status page.


So vendors are supposed to pre-install a certificate based on that? What happens when you rename it? What happens if you have two of the same AP in the house?




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