Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol that provides communications security over the Internet. The more modern version of this protocol is Transport Layer Security (TLS), specified by the IETF in RFC 2246.

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Script to configure accounts, SSHD, and firewall [closed]

In terms of general security, am I doing anything wrong in this script? ...
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httpclient: Let OpenSSL decide which TLS protocol version is used by default

I use Gem in a Box, a Ruby project that allows to create personal self-hosted gem repsitories. Gem in a Box uses httpclient to connect to the gem repository. After ...
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Secure CURL to & handle response from Payment Gateway

I'm using a payment gateway and am trying to implement the post and response handling with CURL so that it all happens on one page. The following is tested and works but I want to double check it's ...
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Safely accepting a known SSL certificate with a different host name

My app communicates with a server over an internal network through HTTPS. The SSL certificate on this server is listed for the host as its external host name. I want to accept this certificate, but I ...