...a Supplemental to 'How To Deploy Discourse Using Nginx As A Proxy And Install A Certificate'

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Write Your OWN SSL Certificate for NGINX with Sockets - Discourse or Generic

Lets Encrypt is GREAT for convenience! Do I trust it? Not one bit. No particular reason for that, other than I don’t trust anything 3rd party, knowing what I know now… Good news. You can write your OWN SSL! And though I don’t really trust ‘Elliptic Curve Cryptography’ either, I think it’s a good foundation for getting started with building out your own secure SSL, too. So, without further adieu, here go: Create a self-signed certificate: sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 7 -newkey rsa:…