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Your connection is not private: Trusting your own LAB SelfSigned Certificates in Kaspersky, Windows and Chrome

This use case scenario is aimed at those folks who are developing on their local environment and need to trust a set of certificates. This is so they are not always prompted for verification to a domain they know is already trusted and safe.  Despite that site having self signed certificates as is the case in many labs. Here's how to suppress these for specific sites.

Your connection is not private

The steps below assume you are running on Windows 10 and using a non previlieged account.  As of this writing, Chrome appears to make use of it's own Trust Root Certificate Authorities which could not be updated using import in that category.

1) Chrome  ( First 4 steps may not work )

  • Export the certificate to a file by clicking the Lock or Not Secure text that may appear to the left of your URL. 
  • Select View Certificate -> Details tab then Copy to File... Then save the certificate.  Name the file something easily descernable to prevent confusion later on. https://i0.wp.com/www.microdevsys.com/WordPressImages/Trusting-Self-Signed-Certificates-Allow-In-Chrome.PNG?ssl=1
  • in chrome://settings, or using the three dot menu from the top right, search for SSL in the search field then select Security -> Manage Certificates .
  • Import your certificate under the 
  • If the above doesn't work, on the error page type thisisunsafe .to bypass the prompt in the future.  The site will still be marked as insecure however it will no longer prompt for a pass.

2) Kaspersky Total Security

  • Add the sites to the list of Trusted Addresses to bypass the above Kaspersky warning.
    https://i0.wp.com/www.microdevsys.com/WordPressImages/Trusting-Self-Signed-Certificates-Allow-In-Kaspersky.PNG?ssl=1

3) Enjoy!

TK

 

 

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