Visit your Embassy at its Tor Address.
Navigate to –> Embassy –> Connect Over LAN
Select the “Connect over LAN” menu item¶
Select the “Root Certificate Authority” sub menu. This will prompt a download to save the certificate file to your machine.
Select the “Root Certificate Authority” sub menu¶
Select the option to open your key with Keychain Access. If you choose to save file, double click on it once downloaded.
Open with “Keychain Access” and select “OK”¶
Enter your computer password when prompted. It will be imported into your computer’s keychain.
Keychain access import menu¶
If the keychain console did not open, press “Command + spacebar” and type “Keychain Access”, and hit enter to open it.
Navigate to the “System” tab and find the certificate entitled “Embassy Local Root CA”.
Double click on this certificate. A second window will pop up.
Open the “Trust” dropdown and select “Always Trust” from the dropdown next to “when using this certificate”.
Select “Always trust” under SSL dropdown for Embassy Local CA¶
Close this window and enter your password to apply the settings.
The “Embassy Local Root CA” cert will now read “This certificate is marked as trusted for all users” in Keychain Access.
Trusted Embassy Local CA certificate¶
Open your favorite browser to import this certificate and follow the steps for browser setup.
Install Bonjour Print Services on your Windows machine. This is necessary in order to visit .local addresses on Windows.
If you are having issues running Bonjour after installing, you might have had Bonjour previously installed. To fix:
Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ECCB3bqNDQ
Uninstall Bonjour completely via system settings -> remove programs
Reinstall Bonjour Printer Driver package (download at https://support.apple.com/kb/DL999?locale=en_US)
Restart Windows
Note: Uninstalling Bonjour via the setup package seems to be not enough to solve the issue. Bonjour must be uninstalled via windows system settings.
Visit your Embassy at its Tor Address.
Navigate to –> Embassy –> Connect Over LAN
Select the “Connect over LAN” menu item¶
Select the “Root Certificate Authority” sub menu. This will prompt a download to save the certificate file to your machine.
Select the “Root Certificate Authority” sub menu download icon¶
Select the option to save the Embassy Local CA.crt file.
“Save file” when Opening Embassy Local CA.crt¶
On your computer, right-click the “Start” menu and select “Run”.
Type in “mmc” and click “OK”. When prompted on the “User Account Control” window, select “Yes” to allow this program to run.
Access the Windows Management Console¶
When the Management Console opens, navigate to File > Add/Remove Snap-in.
Add Snap-in from Console Root¶
Select “Certificates” in the left side menu, then “Add”. This will open another window.
Add Certificates to selected snap-ins¶
Select “Computer account” and click “Next. Leave defaulted options on the next screen and click “Finish”.
When you return to the “Add or Remove Snap-ins” page, ensure “Certificates (Local Computer)” exists under “Console Root” in the “Selected snap-ins” section, then click “OK”.
Certificates (Local Computer) is selected as snap-in¶
In the left hand menu of the Management Console, navigate to Certificates (Local Computer) > Trusted Root Certification Authorities > Certificates.
Access Certificates in Management Console¶
Right click on “Certificates”, then navigate to All Tasks > Import.
Select “Import” from Certificates sub-menu¶
Click “Next” on the first page of the Certificate Import Wizard, then browse to the location where you saved the downloaded certificate and click “Open”.
Add downloaded certificate int he Certificate Import Wizard¶
On the “Certificate Store” window, ensure that it says “Trusted Root Certificate Authorities” and click “Next”.
Select “OK” when the import is successful.
Verify the Embassy Local Root CA certificate is in the “Certificates” folder.
Embassy Local Root CA imported into Certificate folder¶
You can save the settings to the console if desired or cancel.
Open your favorite browser to import this certificate and follow the steps for browser setup.
Nothing specific needs to be configured for this environment, so you just need the certificate from your Embassy.
Visit your Embassy at its Tor Address.
Navigate to –> Embassy –> Connect Over LAN
Select the “Connect over LAN” menu item¶
Select the “Root Certificate Authority” sub menu. This will prompt a download to save the certificate file to your machine.
Select the “Root Certificate Authority” sub menu¶
Then open your favorite browser to import this certificate and follow the steps for browser setup.