Posts Tagged ‘certificate’
The @ Company uses a lot of SSL certificates, and we’ve been using ZeroSSL and its Certbot wrapper zerossl-bot to automate how we manage certs. But we wanted more control over the process, which has driven us towards the ZeroSSL API. Sadly the docs don’t provide usage examples, which has made it quite a journey […]
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Tags: API, automation, bash, certificate, curl, Digital Ocean, jq, json, python, script, SSL, ZeroSSL
The Dell Lesson on Trust Scope
Dell has been in trouble for the last few days for shipping a self signed CA ‘eDellRoot'[1] in the trusted root store on their Windows laptops. From a public relations perspective they’ve done the right thing by saying sorry and providing a fix. This post isn’t going to pick apart the rights and wrongs – […]
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Tags: CA, certificate, Dell, trust
CloudFlare have made SSL available to all free subscribers to its content delivery network (CDN) with Universal SSL. The move addresses both cost and complexity issues that have previously confronted web site and application owners wanting to deploy SSL. CloudFlare takes care of issuing a certificate at no cost to the end user, and enabling […]
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Tags: CA, CDN, certificate, CloudFlare, security, SSL, tls, web
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