2016
The future of Certificate Authorities
With the advent of the fully automated and free of cost certificate authorities Let’s Encrypt and StartCom there is no doubt that the future of CAs are changing.
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2016
Let’s Encrypt for Nginx
Let’s install an SSL-certificate from Let’s Encrypt for Nginx.
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2015
Redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with Nginx
All login credentials transferred over plain HTTP can easily be sniffed by an MITM attacker, but is is not enough to encrypt the login forms. If you are visiting plain HTTP pages while logged in, your session can be hijacked, and not even [two-factor authentication](https://www.bjornjohansen.com/two-factor-authentication-for-wordpress) will protect you. To protect all info sent between your visitors – which includes you – and your web server, we will redirect all requests that are coming over plain HTTP to the HTTPS equivalent.
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2014
Optimizing HTTPS on Nginx
Now that you have secured [Nginx with HTTPS](https://www.bjornjohansen.com/securing-nginx-ssl) and [enabled SPDY](https://www.bjornjohansen.com/enabling-spdy-nginx) [enabled HTTP/2](https://www.bjornjohansen.com/enable-http2-on-nginx), it's time to improve both the security and the performance of the server.
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2013
Securing Nginx with HTTPS
Adding a certificate and using the HTTPS protocol is a good improvement to the security in the communication between the browser and the server, and should be in place on all sites that have a user login. Contrary to what many (older) guides say, it doesn't add much load on your server and is fairy easy and cheap to set up right.