Lucas W. Michael TLS Mastery: Tux Edition

English | 2021 | ISBN: 978-1642350531 | 237 Pages | PDFTransport Layer Security, or TLS, makes ecommerce and online banking possible. It protects your passwords and your privacy. Let’s Encrypt transformed TLS from an expensive tool to a free one. TLS understanding and debugging is an essential sysadmin skill you must have.TLS Mastery takes you through:- How TLS works
- What TLS provides, and what it doesn’t
- Wrapping unencrypted connections inside TLS
- Assessing TLS configurations
- The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol
- Using Let’s Encrypt to automatically maintain TLS certificates
- Online Certificate Status Protocol
- Certificate Revocation
- CAA, HSTS, and Certificate Transparency
- Why you shouldn’t run your own CA, and how to do it anyway
and more!