TLS Mastery

Transport Layer Security, or TLS, makes ecommerce and online banking possible. It protects your passwords and your privacy. Let's Encrypt transformed TLS from an expensive tool to a free one. TLS understanding and debugging is an essential sysadmin skill you must have.

TLS Mastery takes you through:

· How TLS works
· What TLS provides, and what it doesn't
· Wrapping unencrypted connections inside TLS
· Assessing TLS configurations
· The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol
· Using Let's Encrypt to automatically maintain TLS certificates
· Online Certificate Status Protocol
· Certificate Revocation
· CAA, HSTS, and Certificate Transparency
· Why you shouldn't run your own CA, and how to do it anyway
· and more!

Stop wandering blindly around TLS. Master the protocol with TLS Mastery!

(The Beastie and Tux editions are identical other than cover art)