The Ghost Operator's Signal
“In shadows, the strongest signal is trust.”
You don’t expose your secrets to the streets. You don’t hang your backend out for the world to poke.
You proxy.
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In today’s connected world, ensuring the security of web communications is very important. Encrypting data exchanged between users and websites is a mandatory step in protecting sensitive information and privacy. Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate authority, coupled with Certbot, a robust tool for automatically managing SSL/TLS certificates, provides a powerful solution for making the web a safer place. In this post, we will explore the process of implementing Let’s Encrypt and Certbot on Debian Linux to enhance web security.
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Apache is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software that allows users to deploy their websites on the internet. It was launched in 1995 and has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.
A reverse proxy is a server that sits in front of web servers and forwards client requests to those web servers. It acts as an intermediary, intercepting and inspecting incoming client requests before forwarding them to the web server. Reverse proxies can provide additional levels of abstraction, control, security, and performance optimization. They are commonly used for load balancing, web acceleration, and to hide implementation details about the web servers.
SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol for establishing authenticated and encrypted links between networked computers. Its current iteration is called TLS (Transport Layer Security).
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