Posts Tagged ‘SSL’
October 2021
Pupdate It’s starting to get muddy out there, and I guess it won’t be long before they need coats on because of the cold. Dart on Docker on Arm Most of the stuff we build at The @ Company is written in Dart, and we want to enable people to run it on the platform […]
Filed under: monthly_update, Raspberry Pi, technology | Leave a Comment
Tags: ARM, Arm64, Armv7, certificates, Dart, Docker, LetsEncrypt, Raspberry Pi, repair, SSL, tls
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 […]
Filed under: howto, software | 2 Comments
Tags: API, automation, bash, certificate, curl, Digital Ocean, jq, json, python, script, SSL, ZeroSSL
Netflix have announced the release of the Message Security Layer protocol (MSL), which they describe as ‘A Modern Take on Securing Communication’. The project is available on github under the Apache 2.0 license, with implementations in Java and JavaScript. The high level goals of the protocol are to improve performance, be cross language, flexible and extensible, […]
Filed under: InfoQ news, security | Leave a Comment
Tags: MSL, Netflix, open source, PKI, SSL, tls
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
The dust is starting to settle now in the wake of Heartbleed[1] – those that are going to fix it have already, other servers that are suffering from the issue will remain vulnerable for years to come. It’s time now for reflection, so here’s mine. I was on a family vacation when Heartbleed was announced, and […]
Filed under: CohesiveFT, security | Leave a Comment
Tags: Heartbleed, IoT, OpenSSL, security, SSL, tls, vulnerability
Update (13 Mar 2014) – this presentation is also available on YouTube I did a presentation at the open source hardware users group (OSHUG) last night. Click to the second slide to get the TL;DR version: With more time I’d like to get some quantitative material on the memory footprint of various cipher suites and […]
Filed under: Arduino, BeagleBone, presentation, Raspberry Pi, security | 1 Comment
Tags: arduino, ARM, BeagleBone, encryption, IPSEC, keys, Raspberry Pi, RPi, security, SSH, SSL, tls
Multi tier apps in Docker.io
Docker provides the means to link containers, which comes in two parts: Outside the container (on the docker command line) a ‘-link name:ref’ is used to create a link to a named container. Inside the container environment variables REF_… are populated with IP addresses and ports. Having linked containers together it’s then necessary to have a little […]
Filed under: code, Docker, howto | 3 Comments
Tags: address, app server, database, Docker, Docker.io, Dockerfile, enviornment, link, linking, MySQL, Nginx, port, Ruby, Sinatra, SSL, ToDoMVC, web server
OpenVPN
For some time I’ve used SSH tunnels as a means to pretend that I’m somewhere else to avoid geography filters, or to otherwise sneak past content filters. This is fine for regular HTTP(S) traffic from a browser, where it is easy to define a proxy server, but doesn’t work so well for other applications – […]
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Tags: cloud, filter, iOS, iSSH, Linux, OpenVPN, PrivateTunnel, SSH, SSL, tunnel, Ubuntu, vpn, VPS, Windows
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