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A funny thing happened on the way out of the office on a Friday evening. It turned out that Gerry Hussein, ­the organiser of the Brighton and Hove Ethereum Meetup group I had just joined a few days earlier, ­works in our building. In fact just two doors away from our office! Gerry is a business analyst and an advocate of new, potentially disruptive technologies in both the social and business realms. I on the other hand needed an excuse to play with an exciting piece of tech called Blockchains ­an implementation of which is, you guessed it, Ethereum. Gerry had the excellent idea of joining forces to organise an event for the Brighton Digital Festival that would be focussed on exploring different perspectives: the socio­political aspects (Gerry’s turf), possible applications (Gerry’s turf), and the actual technology (my turf!). It seemed the right time to do this for several reasons: ­Blockchains have the potential to become a disruptive technology and a whole world of opportunity and rewards is available to those pioneers who establish themselves early. ­

This is our first video on Apache Rewrite Rules. The first rule we quickly show is the pass through.

This is a quick and to the point video on how to sign a Java ARchive (JAR) file using an openssl self-signed certificate.

A quick and dirty explanation of SSL from the point of view of the SSL handshake and a quick look at Self-Signed Certificates and what they are for.

In this video we show an example of SSH tunnelling that may be useful in real life.

In this video our CTO, Cristiano, shows you a neat trick called SSH tunnelling in the context of connecting to a remote database.

SSL certificate installation onto an Apache webserver. This is the third and final of the three-part video where we show how to integrate the certificate. Check out part 1 at:  How to install an SSL certificate onto an Apache …   Check out part 2 at: How to install an SSL certificate onto an Apache …   If you want to know more about Apache Webserver you can visit here: http://httpd.apache.org If you want to know how to generate a self-signed SSL certificate, check out our video at How to create a self-signed certificate…  

This is the second of a three-part video where we show how to install an SSL certificate onto an Apache webserver. If you want to know more about Apache Webserver you can visit here: http://httpd.apache.org See part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjZOyANmKWU&t=0s  See part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuUTdMdNoO8&t=0s 

This is the first of a three-part video where we show how to install an SSL certificate onto an Apache webserver. If you want to know more about Apache Webserver you can visit here: http://httpd.apache.org See part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS0AK_qJ4OE See part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuUTdMdNoO8

This short video shows how to create a self-signed certificate using the openssl command tools. For more information on openssl see http://openssl.org. Summary: create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with the command: openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout localhost.key -out localhost.csr self-sign the Certificate with the command: openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in localhost.csr -signkey localhost.key -out localhost.crt For more tutorials, see https://brightminded.com/updates/