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Smart, secure encryption with SNI Neil Stone

As the Internet continues to grow, so do the potential dangers of communicating important information. Gone are the ‘good old days’ where there was an implicit level of trust between users, and as a result, there has been a significant uptake in the requirement to secure data transmission online...

Let's Encrypt — how did we survive without it? Rob Congalton

Let’s Encrypt is awesome! Not only is it more secure than your existing certificate authority. It's also reliable, scalable, fully automated — and free!

SSL

27 Apr 2018

How to add Cloudflare in front of HAProxy Thorsten Wetzig

What is Cloudflare? Cloudflare provides a content delivery network (CDN). A CDN is a worldwide network of servers that delivers web content to clients based on the geographic location of the client. Using the Cloudflare

How-To's

18 Aug 2017

How to load balance Microsoft FTP Server with HAProxy Andrei Grigoras

Open standards are awesome, and the File Transfer Protocol FTP (inspite of its flaws) has been in constant use for an amazing 40 years! FTP can be a pain to run over firewalls and load balancers, so this blog explains how to configure Microsoft FTP and HAProxy.

HAProxy

15 Aug 2017

Client Certificate Authentication with HAProxy Aaron West

Using client certificates for security is a pretty cool idea! You can protect an entire application or even just a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to only those that provide a valid client certificate.

SSL

13 Dec 2016

Loadbalancer.org with Let's Encrypt- quick and dirty! Aaron West

Let’s Encrypt offers us a free way to get SSL certs with the aim to be less complex than our current solutions, hmm... Well that sounds pretty cool! I had known about Let’s

Security

17 Nov 2014

How do I get an A+ from Qualys SSL + FIPS compliance? Scott McKeown

Chasing that eternally moving target that is an A+ from Qualys’ SSL scanner? Well, you’ve found the correct Blog! I’ve been testing again whilst also looking at the effect of FIPS compatible ciphers.

SSL

16 Oct 2014

The Poodle SSLv3 - UPDATED - Updated Again Scott McKeown

So here we go again... Another vulnerability has been found in OpenSSL. However, this is very hard to exploit and requires the hacker to have control of your wireless hotspot or network. If that's the

HAProxy

18 Jun 2014

Stunnel X-Forward-For (XFF) with HAProxy and the PROXY Protocol Rob Cooper

When using proxies such as stunnel and HAProxy it's easy to loose track of the client source IP address. This occurs for example when HAProxy is used in it's default configuration to load balance a

SSL

9 Jun 2014

Heartbleed 2.0? Not exactly but more OpenSSL issues have been found Rob Cooper

In the wake of the recent Heartbleed Bug another series of OpenSSL vulnerabilities have been found. Whilst the Heartbleed bug was relatively easy to exploit, the latest batch of bugs are not. However if successfully

SSL

10 Apr 2014

Loadbalancer.org releases patch for the OpenSSL heartbleed vulnerability CVE-2014-0160 Rob Cooper

Vulnerability Description The bug is in OpenSSL's implementation of the TLS/DTLS (transport layer security protocols) heartbeat extension (RFC6520). When it is exploited it leads to the leak of memory contents from the server to

SSL

8 Nov 2013

SSL offload testing with HAProxy and Stunnel Mark Brookes

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 (probably because a lot of the numbers are inflated for

SSL

13 Jun 2012

SSL Termination & The BEAST Scott McKeown

Over the last few weeks we have seen more and more users reporting that they have run a security check on the SSL certificate thats installed on their Loadbalancer appliance using the Trustworty Internet Movement

HAProxy

20 Jul 2009

Transparent proxy of SSL traffic using Pound to HAProxy backend patch and how-to Malcolm Turnbull

OK so 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 in order to use HaProxy to insert

SSL

15 Sep 2008

Using ApacheBench to benchmark SSL performance on the Enterprise R16 Jake Borman

Loadbalancer.org are one of a number of vendors that pride themselves on offering affordable load balancing appliances that work. It is the likes of such companies that have collectively driven down the price of

How-To's

28 Jul 2008

LVS Local node patch for Linux 2.6.25, Centos 5 kernel build how-to Malcolm Turnbull

Standard Kernel builds of LVS (Linux Vitual Server) don't have the ability to load balance traffic that is from the local node. For example if you terminated some SSL traffic using stunnel or pound on

SSL

9 May 2008

Why do SSL certificates cost so much? Malcolm Turnbull

I was reading a post by Tony Bourke 'license to SSL' about the licencing restrictions of Verisign et al. when it comes to web sites running on clusters. He noted a common misconception that if

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