Tagged Let's Encrypt

Install certbot on Amazon Linux

December 13, 2016

There is no packaged version of certbot for Amazon Linux so we have to download and set it up manually. Running it the first time will install all dependencies and should then work to create and renew certificates. Unfortunately, the first run on Amazon Linux gives us and error instead of a working certbot. :(

tags:

AWS
EC2
SSL
Let's Encrypt
certbot

SSL for Websites

November 18, 2016

The goals of SSL/HTTPS are to provide a secure channel of communication. You should be able to trust that the SSL certificate you receive was actually issued to the website you are visiting and that it is non-trivial for a third party to read the data passing between the client and server.

tags:

ssl
https
http/2
security
certificates
Let's Encrypt
Networking