Tagged: OpenSSL

Validate SSL Certificate & Private Key

It’s not uncommon to need to validate if an SSL certificate / private key combination is valid. The easiest way to do this is with OpenSSL, an open source library that… is a robust,...

Letsencrypt: Free SSL Certificates for NGINX

I always wanted all of my sites to run over SSL, but it also didn’t seem worth the expense of buying certificates for all the domains I own. Enter Let’s Encrypt which offers free...

Create a Self-Signed Certificate for Apache SSL on CentOS

A self-signed certificate can be used for many things, but in this case it is to provide HTTP over SSL from Apache, HTTPS. In many cases a CA signed certificate is not required –...