Category: encryption

Installing a LetsEncrypt.org wildcard certificate on Linux using acme.sh and a DNS Api

Objective: To acquire and install a wildcard SSL/TLS certificate from LetsEncrypt.org to a GNU/Linux system with automatic renewal enabled by using a registrar’s DNS API to prove the ownership of the domain. In this case I’m using the Gandi LiveDNS API but the instructions work with other DNS providers with APIs too that have acme.sh… Continue reading Installing a LetsEncrypt.org wildcard certificate on Linux using acme.sh and a DNS Api

Translation: Tao Te King – Chapter 2. Becoming perfect

Chapter 2. Becoming perfect When the world speaks of the beauty of beauty then ugliness is defined in the same. When good is seen as good then evil is also immediately clear. Thus being and unbeing both awaken each other; same as difficult and easy, distant and near, high and low, sounding and tinkling, head… Continue reading Translation: Tao Te King – Chapter 2. Becoming perfect

Translation: Tao Te King – Chapter 18. Mending

Chapter 18. Mending When the great Tao has disappeared, charity among people and duty towards one’s kin follows.¹ When wisdom is joined with honor the world is full of those who ask. When family ties are severed the children’s duties and parents’ spoiling replace them. When there is lot of arguing among the people “patriots”… Continue reading Translation: Tao Te King – Chapter 18. Mending

Installation of Etherpad

Objective: Install a private instance of Etherpad.org secured with TLS encryption and configuring the system to have good level of controll over who gets to see and edit what i.e. to authenticate the users. Instructions used: Official installation instructions from Etherpad.org that will get you an etherpad you can access on localhost. The instructions continue… Continue reading Installation of Etherpad

TLS encryption with LetEncrypt.org certificates

Objectives to the accomplished First I will be getting and installing a new cert for use on pad.byjuho.fi which will host an Etherpad instance to fulfill my secure textual collaboration needs safely. Second I will be replacing the shortly expiring commercial certificate for *.consumium.org. So far I know that I can have the old cert… Continue reading TLS encryption with LetEncrypt.org certificates