Encrypted Postgres Backups

Today I decided to encrypt all my Postgresql Database Dumps. The OpenSSL command provides a nice tool for helping us encrypt and decrypt database backups in this way. The following steps will walk us through this process.

The first step needed to encrypt your database is to generate the RSA public/private keys. This can be done with the following command:

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Free SSL certificate for 3 years and up to 100 domains

 More and more people reconfigured their sites to ssl connection. So I decided to use ssl certificate and secure connection on my blogs too.

The Chinese CA WoSign offers free SSL certificates which are valid for 2 years and may contain up to 100 domains each (multi-domain/SAN/UCC) which is very useful to host various domains on one single IP address (Better option than SNI if you still have Windows XP clients). Before you stop reading because you don't trust a Chinese company for your website encryption please keep in mind that you don't have to trust them at all! You generate the SSL key on your server and only send them the CSR (certificate signing request) which doesn't contain any private information.

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