Let's Encrypt is a soon to be publicly available service to provide TLS certificates for free and in automated fashion. I'm helping them test their systems by participating in the beta programme. Because of that this site is now sporting, publicly re ... read more →

It's not common for me to put just one link here as the content of the article. Today, however, is one of these days. The bettercrypto folks came up with really excellent practical guide to securing your servers. A draft for now, but already sporting ... read more →

I needed to set up a Wordpress installation where https is on nonstandard port and the admin interface lives in that land, while the site itself is using plain http. In wp-config.php: if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) { define('WP_SITEURL', 'https:/ ... read more →