Creating Auto-signed SSL Certificate for local testing
Have you ever wonder why in some sites there's this green lock in the navigation bar of the browser that says "Secure"? That my lovely readers is just a fancy way to display in your browser that the server you are connecting to has a TLS/SSL certificate. No, unfortunately, it does not mean that the website you are accessing to is necessarily secure. My friend Diego has an interesting post of how can you fake this sort of certificates using a Pineapple Wifi and a classic Man-in-the-middle attack. So you might wonder, if this does not mean that the site is secure, when what does it means? Although the scope of this post is more on how to create auto-signed certificates on Mac with MAMP for local testing, rather than explaining what SSL certificates are, I do consider quite important to understand what they are. I found this cool video that gives a nice, graphic and simple explanation of what SSL certificates are: As you might have understood from the video, TL...
