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How to set up Letsencrypt certificates on AWS EC2

Anna E Kobylinska 2016-02-10 Leave a Comment

How to set up Letsencrypt certificates on AWS EC2

[updated 2018-06-12] As browser makers continue their push for HTTPS and mobile applications are becoming the target of MITM (man-in-the-middle) attacks, cloud developers and administrators are scrambling to find affordable SSL certificates that can live up to the demands of the cloud era. Enter Let’s Encrypt, a new Certificate Authority that is open, fully automated, and free to use, with an almost unprecedented, generous allotment of 100 host names per certificate. Let’s Encrypt delivers on the promise of a worry-free, fully encrypted web 3.0. Cloud Insidr lifts the veil off of Let’s Encrypt’s setup, configuration, its few surprises and hidden gems.

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Filed Under: administration and orchestration, cloud, edge and everything in between, cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, mail servers, NGINX, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: certbot, certificate, letsencrypt, RSA, SSL

How to Use Letsencrypt across Servers in the Manual Configuration Mode with a CSR

Anna E Kobylinska 2016-02-10 Leave a Comment

How to Use Letsencrypt across Servers in the Manual Configuration Mode with a CSR

Generating SSL certificates when Letsencrypt (what is Letsencrypt, who is behind it, and how the heck can you get started) is available for your system works in a breeze, but what if you need your certificates for a machine that won’t take Letsencrypt (for whatever reason)? It is still possible: you can either grab Letsencrypt from Git, or, for reasons of practicality… create a certificate signing request (CSR) on your target server, transfer it to your letsencrypt instance, generate the certificates you need, then transfer the generated files back to your target instance and install the certificates in your software.

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Filed Under: administration and orchestration, cybersecurity and cyber warfare, encryption, mail servers, web servers in the cloud Tagged With: CSR, encryption, SSL

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