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All You Need To Know About SSL CERTIFICATE

September 28, 2022October 20, 2022Studio-Scalacertificate, Security, ssl, Web

Reading Time: 3 minutes SSL certificate is a digital certificate that validates a website’s identity and allows an encrypted connection. Which stands for Secure Sockets Layer. A security protocol that creates an encrypted link between a web browser and a web server. Companies and organizations need to add SSL certificates to their websites to protect online transactions and keep customer details private and secure. In short: SSL keeps internet Continue Reading

Security & SSL Setup in Confluent Kafka

March 22, 2022March 22, 2022Apache Kafka, kafka, Studio-Scala, Tech BlogsApache Kafka, kafka, Kafka Streams, kafkasecurity, sasl, ssl

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is SSL ? Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a security protocol for the transport layer. In SSL Protocol data is divided into fragments. The fragments are compressed and encrypted Message Authentication Code (MAC) generated by algorithms like Secure Hash Protocol(SHA) and MD5(Message Digest) is appended. SSL is the predecessor of Transport Layer Security(TLS) . After encryption of data, finally, the SSL header is appended Continue Reading

NGINX – Easiest way to setup SSL using .pfx files

March 22, 2018December 18, 2018Studio-DevOpsDevops, https, nginx, ssl

Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ll try to explain the easiest way to use a .pfx file that can be used to install SSL on NGINX. We’ll start by extracting the CRT file using openssl with the following command openssl pkcs12 -in ./YOUR-PFX-FILE.pfx -clcerts -nokeys -out domain.crt Followed by extracting the private key with the following command openssl pkcs12 -in ./YOUR-PFX-FILE.pfx -nocerts -nodes -out domain.rsa

Handling HTTPS requests with Akka-HTTPS Server

January 17, 2017June 8, 2018Akka, akka-http, Security, Security Audit, Security Checklist, Security Controls, Security Guidelines, Studio-ScalaAkka, akka-http, akka-https, http, http request, HTTP server, https, HTTPS requests, keymanager, keystore, REST, scala, Server-Side HTTPS, SMTP, SOAP, ssl, ssl certificate, SSlContext, trustmanager, truststore

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi guys, In my last blogs I explained how one can create a self-signed certificate and KeyStore in PKCS12. You can go through the previous blog, as we’ll be needing certificate and keystore for handling HTTPS requests. https://blog.knoldus.com/2016/10/18/create-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate-using-openssl/ https://blog.knoldus.com/2016/10/26/how-to-create-a-keystore-in-pkcs12-format/ Akka-HTTP provides both Server-Side and Client-Side HTTPS support. In this blog I’ll be covering the Server-Side HTTPS support. Let’s start with “why do we need server-side HTTPS support?” If we want the communication between the browser and Continue Reading

How to create a KeyStore in PKCS12 Format.

October 26, 2016June 8, 2018Security, Security Controls, Studio-Scala.p12, .pem, certificate, crt, csr, keystore, keystore in pkcs12, keytool, openssl, pem file, pkcs, pkcs12, pkcs12 format, RSA, ssl

Reading Time: 2 minutes In my last blog I explained how to create a self-signed SSL certificate. You can go through the previous blog and generate the certificate and private key as we’ll be needing it for creating a KeyStore. Create a self-signed SSL Certificate using OpenSSL. In this blog I’ll be explaining how one can create a KeyStore in PKCS12 Format using OpenSSL. Let’s start with “What is Continue Reading

Create a self-signed SSL Certificate using OpenSSL.

October 18, 2016June 8, 2018Security, Studio-Scalacertificate openssl, certificates, crt, csr, https, openssl, Security, self signed, self signed certificate, ssl, ssl certificate, tls, Web

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this blog I’ll be giving a little bit of insight on SSL certificates and then how to create a self-signed certificate using OpenSSL. Let’s start with “What is an SSL Certificate?“ SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. SSL is a global standard technology that creates encrypted communication between web browser and web server. It helps to decrease the risk of losing your personal information(e.g passwords, emails, Continue Reading