TLS certificate on jmesnil.net

Web browers now treats sites served by HTTP as "Not secure". I finally caved in and added a TLS certificate to jmesnil.net.

If you are visiting jmesnil.net, you can now browse it safely and be sure that your credit cards numbers will not be stolen. That's progress I suppose...

I host my site on Amazon AWS and use a bunch of their services (S3, Route 53, CloudFront, Certificate Manager) to be able to redirect the HTTP traffic to HTTPS (and the www.jmesnil.net URLs to jmesnil.net). I will see how much this increase the AWS bill...

More interestingly, I used Let's Encrypt to generate the certificates. It took me less than 5 minutes to generate it (including the acme challenge to verify the ownership of the jmesnil.net domain name). This project is a great example of simplifying and making accessible a complex technology to web publishers.