POWERUp 2019

Having websites secured by an SSL certificate used to be the exception but as more an more web browsers demand a secure site before connecting, the need for adding SSL to your website has grown. This session will look at why the secure website movement is growing and how the open source community is responding. We'll look specifically at Let's Encrypt, a free and open source SSL solution. We look at how to implement Letsencrypt certificates on Apache on IBM i using DCM (Digital Certificate Manager)

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the need for SSL and how it works
2. Looks at the Let's Encrypt implementation of free certificates.
3. Walk through the step by step instructions on getting it to work with DCM.