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How to automate SSL/TLS certificate renewal with Let's Encrypt
How many engineers does it take to renew an SSL/TLS certificate? Several, you might joke. But you may not be far wrong!..
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Master and manage SSL/TLS on your load balancer. Find expert guides on termination, certificate management (renewal, monitoring, Let's Encrypt), mTLS setup, and security best practices to ensure encrypted, high-performance application delivery.
Rob Cooper
Loadbalancer.org releases patch for the OpenSSL heartbleed vulnerability CVE-2014-0160
To ensure complete protection all SSL certificates that have been used with a vulnerable version of OpenSSL should be regenerated using a new private key...
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Mark Brookes
SSL offload testing with HAProxy and Stunnel
There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested...
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Scott McKeown
Secure Your Web Servers: SSL Termination and BEAST
The BEAST attack is a practical attack based on a protocol vulnerability and mainly affects the client side...
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Malcolm Turnbull
Transparent proxy of SSL traffic using Pound to HAProxy backend patch and how-to
I've previously blogged about how to get TPROXY and HAProxy working nicely together, but what if you want to terminate SSL traffic on the load balancer to use HAProxy to insert cookies in the standard HTTP stream to the backend servers?..
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