Requesting SSL Certificates can be a bit of a hassle, so today I’m going to show you how to easily generate SSL certificates with the help of OpenSSL and your CA of choice.
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Disabling Insecure Ciphers on NGINX – NGINX Tricks Part 4
HTTPS is everywhere these days, but not many people think that much about which cipher suites are considered safe. Cipher suites determines what encryption algorithms are used to secure the communication over HTTPS, and as time goes on older cipher… Read More ›
Enabling HTTP/2 on NGINX – NGINX Tricks Part 3
As you might have heard, there’s a new version of HTTP out there that’s far superior to HTTP/1.1. I won’t go into what exactly has changed in HTTP/2, but it’s faster and more secure, and allows for some even more… Read More ›
Getting started with Let’s Encrypt & Certbot – LE Series Part 1
I’ve been enjoying myself immensely playing around with Let’s Encrypt these last few days, and discovered a couple solution to common problems and issues, so I thought I’d make a small guide mostly for my own reference on how to… Read More ›
Configuring Ubuntu to Patch Itself
After a couple of years in the IT infrastructure world, you’ll be faced with the greatest task of all, updating servers every month or so. This has always been the most brain dead task imaginable, but now with virtualization, we… Read More ›
How to Configure SNMPv3 on HP/Aruba Switches – HP Networking Series Part 6
Configuring SNMPv3 can be a daunting task compared to earlier questions, just from the copious amount of authentication parameters compared to earlier SNMP versions. In this short primer I’ll walk you through the steps necessary to set it up to… Read More ›
Configuring Debian to Patch Itself
After a couple of years in the IT infrastructure world, you’ll be faced with the greatest task of all, updating servers every month or so. This has always been the most brain dead task imaginable, but now with virtualization, we… Read More ›
Mikko Hyppönen talking about the NSA at TED
I recently saw this speech live in Helsinki, and now I’m very thrilled to find it online, and in English even, so I can share this with the rest of the world. Mikko Hyppönen is the Chief Research Officer at… Read More ›