Certificates
Spectera Base Station is using a self-signed certificate for network communication.
Currently it is not possible to replace it with a CA-signed certificate. The
certificate is generated in factory and will be renewed with every factory reset.
When accessing the Spectera WebUI with a browser for the first time you will get a
security warning informing about an unknown certificate. The security warning depends on
the browser you are using. Depending on your browser, click on Advanced or Show Details
(Safari) and then on:
- Microsoft Edge: Continue to localhost (unsafe)
- Google Chrome: Proceed to localhost (unsafe)
- Firefox: Accept the Risk and Continue
- Apple Safari:
- or similar (other browsers)
In order to prevent man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, Sennheiser LinkDesk has some
built-in security measures. Because of these measures, you might receive a certificate
mismatch warning while working with a Base Station. In some cases, these can occur even
though there is actually no security issue. These are:
- The Base Station has been factory reset since the last connect. In this case you can safely confirm the connection and proceed when encountering the mismatch warning.
- A different Base Station has been connected via the same IP address. In this case please verify if the IP Address you are using is indeed the correct IP Address of the intended Base Station.