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Generate a CSR using OpenSSL

Sometimes I generate a CSR to acquire an SSL cert from a public CA. Normally where I work I do this from a windows server.  For my personal knowledge I decided to  refresh myself on how to do this with OpenSSL. What’s OpenSSL? OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. To generate […]

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SHA-1 based SSL Certificates are being Phased Out

Hello friends, The following post is to advice some of you that run public facing websites which use SSL.  Google Chrome  will start giving users Warning messages when accessing sites that use SHA-1 based SSL Certificates. By the way – This is scheduled to start happening in under a month form now. And if you are […]