HTTPS

Aug 22 2019

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Out of the millions of frequent visitors to this blog, the keen eyed individuals among you may have noticed a small change...a little green padlock now appears next to the url in your browser's search bar.


I have upgraded the site to use HTTPS, which basically means that the site now uses encryption during moments of data transfer. I believe that SHA256withRSA is what is being used.


I used the Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority: https://letsencrypt.org/ and am really happy with their documentation and product. They suggested using the Certbot ACME client and it worked very well: https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/
It was straightforward to set up, you just need to make sure that you already have a HTTP site that allows SSH terminal access with sudo privileges, they take you through the rest of the setup.