Re: NGINX with Synchonet
  By: Va7aqd to echicken on Wed Jun 26 2019 13:29:02

 Va> It's done all the time in web hosting - many load balancing devices have
 Va> hardware dedicated to providing offloaded SSL/TLS. Hell, I think things
 Va> like Cloudflare will do it for you as well, but then you're likely
 Va> transiting plaintext data, which then gets back in to *shudder* territory.

If this were some edge server communicating in the clear with other stuff
behind it over a network, it'd be closer to *shudder* territory, but even then
it kind of depends on the whole setup.  Doesn't really seem like the case here.

I'm not sure what the current state of bring-your-own-cert is for the
Synchronet webserver, or if Let's Encrypt is your only other option apart from
self-signed.  Maybe methods like this aren't needed now.  I just set it up this
way some years ago because it was quick and easy.

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