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    Certificate Authority–safe to use real location information

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    • B Offline
      Bear Island
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      I'm just setting up pfSense for the first time. At the moment, it means getting certificates set up for the VPN server.

      When creating a CA, it's asking me for my name, organization name, and locality name, etc.

      Is my "real" information safe to use for a private server? Who will see it?

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        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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        people connecting to your vpn would be able to see it.

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          Is my "real" information safe to use for a private server? Who will see it?

          If this is a private installation you could also put into it bogus names or company names
          as well this doesn´t matter, but if this is a installation used in a productive network it
          should be also going with real names and informations.

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