Tag: SSL

  • Cutting Your Website Costs: My Approach to Free SSL/TLS Certificates

    UPDATE: Unforunately free only lasts so long. After 3 90-day certificates, you must convert to a monthly account. That’s a shame, and a questionable ask considering you are the one doing all of the work to generate and install the SSL/TLS. Ah well, the search for free goes on. It’s no secret that running a…

  • SSL Certificate Installation

    In November 2022 I wrote an article about Google’s Secure Connections Initiative, a program that helps make the internet more secure by promoting the use of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). HTTPS is a protocol that encrypts data sent between a web browser and a web server, making it more difficult for attackers to intercept…

  • Secure Connections

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    What is Secure Connections? Secure connections: a connection that is encrypted by one or more security protocols to ensure the security of data flowing between two or more nodes. This week’s buried & forgotten news is next week’s big news! Chrome browser will begin to mark certain types of HTTP pages as not secure in…