Archive for the ‘E-Mail’ Category
by Jason Stewart
It’s 2016, and e-mail still poses a lot of security problems.
POSTED: 2016-09-06
UPDATED:
2019-08-10
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E-Mail
by Jason Stewart
To encrypt the transmission of e-mail from our e-mail clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Mail, iMail, iPhone Mail, Android Mail, etc.) to our e-mail servers, many of us (whether we know it or not) are using STARTTLS. STARTTLS is a way for clear text communication protocols to “upgrade” to a secured connection. If client and server […]
by Jason Stewart
Thanks to the recent NSA/Snowden allegations, all of the major websites have been sending every picture, post, and tweet over “secure” HTTP (HTTP/S). This particular usage of HTTP/S is FAANG moat-making, and security theater. HTTP/S only secures a connection between two endpoints. An endpoint would be a device (like your phone or desktop) or a […]
by Jason Stewart
Step 1: Create the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout mysite.com.key -out mysite.com.csr It will ask the following questions. Answer all of them except for the last two (challenge password and optional company name). If you do set a challenge password, each program which uses the certificate will also need to […]
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