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Anchor Blog
Company blog · blog.anchor.devsecurityprogramming
Anchor Blog is the company blog at blog.anchor.dev, writing about security and programming. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The ACME Gap: Introducing Anchor”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a neutral mention of a related tool in a Show HN thread on private CAs for internal TLS. It does not comment on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A publication from the team at Anchor — https://anchor.dev
Most-linked posts?
- The ACME Gap: Introducing Anchor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-13
What Hacker News says?
My project, getlocalcert.net[1] may be the one you're thinking of. Since I'm also building in this space, I'll give my perspective. Local certificate generation is complicated. If you spend the time, you can figure it out, but it's begging for a simpler solution. You can use tools like mkcert[2] for anything that's local to your machine. However, if you're already using ACME in production, maybe you'd prefer to use…
Comment linking /the-acme-gap-introducing-anchor-part-1-of-3-2466ad7e53f6
on “Show HN: Anchor – developer-friendly private CAs for internal TLS”Submitted Effortless Encryption: Introducing Anchor as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIndeed, we automatically build language (JS, Go, Ruby, Python soon) and OS (debian) packages that you can use in your application or base image. Those packages bundle the set of root CA certs so that your clients trust the certificates presented by servers. Soon we'll have automatic package publishing, so that rotating cert material is just another dependabot PR. edit: for the laptop problem, we have a CLI toolchain…
Comment linking /getting-started-with-anchor-for-local-development-6dd2cd605c08
on “Show HN: Anchor – developer-friendly private CAs for internal TLS”Submitted Quick and easy HTTPS/TLS for local development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe internal TLS stuff built into Caddy is great, as is it's support for ACME. And using Anchor with Caddy has few extra advantages. We generate system & language packages for your clients so they trust the server cert. The dashboard provides a view into all the cert material in your environment. And we have built in maintenance schedules for rotating certificate material. And we constrain the CAs to minimize the ri…
Comment linking /blast-radius-certificate-constraints-6aa8081c66f7
on “Show HN: Anchor – developer-friendly private CAs for internal TLS”Submitted Blast Radius and Certificate Constraints as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ACME Gap: Introducing Anchor as a story · 1 points
HN discussion