October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 26m
English
Transport Layer Security (TLS), is the protocol used to secure HTTP traffic. This protocol is based on public key cryptography to authenticate peers in a connection, and on symmetric cryptography to cipher the content. The authentication relies on root certificate authorities that are known by HTTP client libraries. Historically, using a certificate recognized by web browsers and libraries was a paid-for service, like registering DNS domains.
However, since 2014, Let's Encrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/) allows us to get TLS certificates easily, automatically, and at no charge.
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