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)