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SSL Fun and Games

// September 26th, 2007 // Tech

I’ve recently been embarking on another encryption spree in a couple of areas of my online existence. Let it be known for the record that I love encryption. The inherent privacy and security of a good tunnel or SSL connection is very reassuring.

As I recently had to rebuild my media server at home (aka the ickle box in the corner) to add software RAID1 I thought I’d try and get the web sites running there in to run over https. A couple of quick tweaks to various config files and now my access to Torrentflux AND my Subversion server are all running over a lovely encrypted link.

Gmail I’ve been accessing over SSL for some time now. You may not know this as it’s not enabled by default but heading to https://mail.google.com/ will result in a secure connection.

Finally, you can use the same trick for SSL enabled Google Reader access! Simply head to https://www.google.com/reader/ and voila, no more snooping.

On a serious note, for those (like me) who work in an environment where pretty much all traffic in and out of our network is logged*, https can be your friend. Now all I need to do is enable https for XSet and get these posts in under the radar J

* Of course in my case I administer the traffic logging but most people aren’t so lucky.