{"id":507,"date":"2017-02-24T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linux.asberry.org\/blog_tech\/?p=507"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:36:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:36:06","slug":"server-level-ssl-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Server Level SSL Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading this you are more than likely doing so on a web browser and the this site is secured with 256 bit encryption. <!--more-->As I host my own servers, keeping up with the SSL certificates for the sites and making sure they are updated can be a time consuming (and costly) task. To this end I was using StartSSL for my certificate needs, they were cheap (read free) and did what I needed so that I had encryption on my site. \u00a0Long story short they were bought by another company and that company was less than honest and lost their CA authority.<\/p>\n<p>So considering my SSL had just expired and if I used one from StartSSL again users of Chrome and Firefox would not be able to access my site, completely unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\">LetsEncrypt.org<\/a>, this is a consortium of tech companies that support open automation of encryption. I have shell access to my computers and I simply installed CertBot and let it run and boom, it&#8217;s encrypted and everything works. \u00a0If you have your own web server you need to check this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading this you are more than likely doing so on a web browser and the this site is secured with 256 bit encryption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","author-aron"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBkH-8b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asberry.org\/blog_tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}