vSkilled Crypto - Now SSL Encrypted!

vSkilled is now fully SSL encrypted and including HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS). Since vSkilled is a technical IT blog, one would expect to think that…

Karl NyenGeneral Misc2016-04-211 min readFrom the archive

Karl NyenPublished 2016-04-21 · Updated 2016-05-18

vSkilled is now fully SSL encrypted and including HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS). Since vSkilled is a technical IT blog, one would expect to think that the communication between the client and server aught be encrypted. Now that traffic has picked up on the site I decided to move things over to SSL.

Cloudflare diagram comparing Flexible SSL, Full SSL and Full SSL strict encryption

vSkilled uses CloudFlare as our CDN so that complicates things slightly when using SSL. We’re using the Full SSL (Strict) model which encrypts the connection between you and CloudFlare, and from CloudFlare to vSkilled’s web servers.

Enjoy!

Karl Nyen

Writing about virtualization, home lab, cloud, storage and gaming on vSkilled, started in 2014.

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