<p>I may have mentioned this before - I do run my own virtual servers for important services (basically email and my web presence). I do this mostly for historic reasons and also because I’m not a huge fan of using centralised services for all of the above. The downside is that you pretty much have to learn at least about basic security. Over the 20+ years I’ve been doing this, the Internet hasn’t exactly become a less hostile place. Anyway, Elliptic Curve Certificates, what…

<p>I’ve recently blogged about <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/01/adding-tls-support-to-emacs-24-5-on-windows/">adding TLS support to Emacs 24.5 on Windows</a> and <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/08/04/improve-git-performance-on-windows-without-patching-your-git-install/">improving git performance on Windows by installing an alternative git command line client</a>. The reason I ended up investigating how to add SSL and TLS support to Emacs is that when…

<p>The Windows build of Emacs 24.5 doesn’t ship with SSL and TLS support out of the box. Normally that’s not that much of a problem until you are trying to access marmalade-repo or have <a href="https://github.com/punchagan/org2blog">org2blog</a> talk to your own blog via SSL/TLS.</p>