A wildcard certificate is a specific form of the certificate used in TLS/SSL instances. It is a single certificate with a wildcard character (*) in the domain name field. This allows the certificate to secure multiple subdomain names (hosts) pertaining to the same base domain. For example, a wildcard certificate for *.(domainname).com, could be used …
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PEM (originally “Privacy Enhanced Mail”) file was initially invented to make e-mail secure. Now it is an Internet security standard. PEM file is the most common format for X.509 certificates, CSRs, and cryptographic keys. What is a PEM file A PEM file is a text file containing one or more items in Base64 ASCII encoding, …
There are two major encoding schemes for X.509 certificates and keys: PEM (Base64 ASCII), and DER (binary). DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) is a data object encoding schema that can be used to encode certificate objects into binary files. PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) is an encrypted email encoding schema that can be borrowed to encode certificate …
A disk partition is a contiguous space of storage on a physical or logical disk that functions as if it were a physically separate disk. Partitions are visible to the system firmware and the installed operating systems. Access to a partition is controlled by the system firmware before the system boots the operating system, and …
The first thing that we need to know is there is no C drive or E drive in Linux. We will see something like /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, … etc. instead. The dev is short for device. The sd was short for Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) mass-storage driver. /dev/sda – The first SCSI disk SCSI …
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A block device is a storage device that moves data in sequences of bytes or bits (blocks). These devices support random access and generally use buffered I/O. Examples include hard disks, CD-ROM drives, and flash drives. A block device can be physically attached to a computer or accessed remotely as if it were physically attached …
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service. The service is designed for online backup and archiving of data and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon S3 was designed with a minimal feature set and created to make web-scale computing easier for developers. What is AWS S3 bucket? …
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a scalable, high-speed, low-cost web-based service designed for online backup and archiving of data and application programs. It allows to upload, store, and download any type of files up to 5 TB in size. Amazon S3 can be integrated with any application or services offered by Amazon, such as …
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that lets us launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that we define. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables us to launch Amazon Web Services resources into a virtual network we’ve defined. This virtual network resembles a traditional network that we’d operate in our …