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I invite anyone familiar with Linux or Debian to register here at debiantutorials.org and write tutorials or related articles in order that everyone in the community can benefit. I'm talking to you. You say it better than I do. Your ideas just flow like water. There's so much more that needs to be written in ways that your cousin or an office manager can benefit from. Consider it.

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SSL at debiantutorials.org

Written by machiner

Tuesday, 21 April 2009 18:11

If you would like to take advantage of SSL while visiting debiantutorials.org you may of course use the https:// protocol. Just add an "s" yourself to the URL and then hit enter

Additionally, I think it's very important to make sure that any page you are submitting information on within any website is encrypted. Look in the address bar for https://. Of course, most sites do not employ a certificate in this manner for the very same reason I don't and the next paragraph addresses that.

You need to know that your browser will alert you: WOOP WOOP DANGER!! The error message in Firefox is especially scary! The error is because the security certificate is generic to the server that debiantutorials.org is hosted on. Of course it does not say debiantutorials.org in the certificate because it was created and installed on the server before I ever had an account.

If you would like to know more, I host at ICDSoft and this page will explain SSL on a shared host in more detail.

The same certificate that you can make on your Linux box or that you can buy from say, Thawte, is what's employed on the server. Everyone uses the same commands to create them.

If it bothers you that I don't have my own security certificate then you can buy me one. They are about $125 a year at Comodo and a whole lot more from other places. There is also a small charge at ICDSoft to "install" it. I know, there is a free "open" SSl cert that I can get, as well, but that certificate has its own set of issues.

So, to recap, if you want to use SSL while at debiantutorials.org you can. Just don't panic when you get a warning message in your browser as the certificate works fine and does what it's supposed to do: encrypt the data stream between debiantutorials.org and your computer. You can install the certificate in your browser to avoid seeing any warning messages. Click here to do so. (It's the same link from the ICDSoft page I referenced above ;)

If you would like to know a little more about SSL and or TLS without having to become a computer scientist, check out the brief overview at how stuff works.

Happy Computing

--machiner

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