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Heval
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 Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:58 pm Post subject: Self-Signed SSL certificate |
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I installed self-signed SSL certificate using following link.
http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/articles/self-signed-cert.html .
Now I am using https and everything is OK.
I have 3 questions to ask, please:
1) Since my site now is accessed through HTTPS, does that mean that any information going out of my website is encrypeted?
2) What is Stunnel? Do I need to install it too?
3) What is OpenSSL? Do I need to install it?
I have a website that is only accessed by my family members. they have static IPs.
I am using Abyss since I created my website and I am very happy with it thanks to its creatore. |
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DonQuichote
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Joined: 24 Dec 2006
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Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:52 am Post subject: SSL questions |
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| Quote: | | 1) Since my site now is accessed through HTTPS, does that mean that any information going out of my website is encrypted? |
Yes. You have a certificate that is used for the encryption. The only thing a self-signed certificate does not provide is the certainty that you are who you say you are. Anyone can generate a certificate, but the signing authorities require some proof of identity.
| Quote: | | 2) What is Stunnel? Do I need to install it too? |
Search engines are your friends. But don't confuse SSL and SSH. They are two completely separate things.
| Quote: | | 3) What is OpenSSL? Do I need to install it? |
You probably already have. Otherwise, how did you generate your certificate?
If you order a signed certificate and get it in some unknown one-OS-only format, you will probably need OpenSSL to convert it to something useful. The Abyss must come with some SSL implementation to do HTTPS traffic. This may or may not be done with OpenSSL internally, I don't know. |
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rrinc
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Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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Location: Arkansas, USA
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| Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 3:59 am Post subject: |
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I don't think STunnel is SSH. Its a way to get SSL on other programs (e.g. Abyss before it had SSL support, which I recall some people did).
Anyway, you don't need it. Abyss already has SSL support.
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