SSL

How to Remove a Passphrase from Certificate Key

September 8, 2022

If you have a Certificate Key that includes a Passphrase and you need to remove it, potentially to use it with AWS App Mesh, then you can do the following:


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Connection broken by ‘SSLError(SSLError(1, ‘[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:777)’

July 26, 2018

This happens when your machine does not have the correct certificate bundle to access the Pypi repository, or you are behind a corporate proxy that just loves to block everything!


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[Solved] Pip: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate

February 26, 2018

If you ever get the following error when trying to install a Pip module under Python:


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When to use SSL?

September 3, 2010

There has always been quite a lot of heated discussion around the question of when to use SSL and when to avoid it while building websites.


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