Jan Wildeboer 😷
OK. Now that I understand how to create working S/MIME certificates for signed and/or encrypted eMail with my own Certificate Authority (CA), I can take it to the next level. Federated CAs. Decentralised trust relationships between CAs. https://smallstep.com/blog/step-v0.8.3-federation-root-rotation/
Step v0.8.3: Federation and Root Rotation for step Certificates
The purpose of federation is to allow for secure communication across autonomous systems (e.g., across clouds or between kubernetes clusters). In this post, we’ll take a closer look into how federation works and how the step toolkit expands robust identity bootstrapping beyond a single Kubernetes cluster, cloud, or VM without getting bogged down by operational challenges.