Tls

Introduction This Lab Step uses OpenSSL to create a basic Certificate Authority (CA) for internal use. The CA is not meant to be used as a production CA; there is much more to configuring a production-ready CA. …

Introduction OpenSSL is a very popular toolkit for SSL/TLS. It is used by both clients and servers. The popular mod_ssl SSL/TLS module for the Apache web server is an interface to OpenSSL and the Nginx server is built with OpenSSL. Together Apache and Nginx serve over 60% of the world’s active…

How much do you really think you know about SSL and TLS? Do you know which protocol and which version is the best choice to use in today’s cyber-computing environments? …

When you visit a website you might have noticed that some of them have a padlock icon next to the URL in a web browser’s address bar and the URL begins with https:// instead of http://. …

Navaneeth Rameshan, Mala Anand Public-Key Cryptography and machine identities are essential building blocks for digital trust and all internet communication. As large Quantum computers are built, they are capable of breaking public-key cryptography. To ensure that the digital trust for our information system is not broken, the U.S. …

In this article, we will set up HashiCorp vault as a certificate issuer using the HashiCorp Vault PKI engine and cert-manager as the management of certificates. We will demonstrate how the certificate issuing and automatic renewal works when we deploy an example web application with ingress resources and TLS enabled. This can simplify the usual manual process of certificate requesting, signing, and renewal. The following figure is the high-level view of the implementation.

We have covered how to enable TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 on Windows Server in the previous post. That lets you know how to enable TLS protocols on a Windows Server locally. If you try enabling TLS on all the servers one after another, it may sound like an uphill…

One of the unknown facts about a website or domain is how it implements proper SSL standards, leaving it insufficiently secure. Casually…

There are many digital assets out there, and more people are getting into the world of cryptocurrency. If this is the case for you, then you will be interested in Litecoin. Litecoin was developed using the same technology as Bitcoin, which is now the most widely accepted form of cryptocurrency…