Archive for the SSL tag

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2016-01-16

Force Apache to use strong cryptography

Crime, Friends-Romans-Countrymen, Security, Technology

I’ve been poking at this for a while, but with some testing via Qualys SSL Labs, I’ve finally been able to devise the incantation that makes Apache only use strong cryptography. Before pointing it out, some background is probably necessary. As anyone, users or webmasters, is probably aware, “https” uses encryption, and that encryption has […]

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2014-12-01

An astute observer may notice something new

Friends-Romans-Countrymen, Rules, Security, Technology

I installed certificates and moved the site to HTTPS. If you set up any links in the last couple of weeks, they’ll still work, but they will redirect to HTTPS. That should be seamless. Some browsers get a bit bitchy about pages not being fully encrypted due to my linking from other sites. This does […]