The free certificate issued by Let’s encrypt lasts 3 months after which it must be renewed, before the deadline. Through its powerful operating system, Synology NAS integrates this “process” and makes it automatic and very easy to manage. If you have a domain and use it for web hosting or simply to access your Synology … Read more about How To Renew Let’s Encrypt Certificate On Synology NAS
Many of you have asked me if there is any method to automatically renew the Let’s Encrypt certificate on your NAS. You need to know the certificate/s will be updated automatically before its/their expiration date, without the need for user-defined scripts or additional rules in Task Scheduler. To do this, it is imperative to leave … Read more about Synology: How to Schedule Let’s Encrypt Certificate Auto Renew
Have you ever wondered why you get a certificate from Synology by default when you install the operating system on your Synology NAS for the first time? After you install DSM on your NAS for the first time, you’ll find a synology.com certificate in Control Panel / Security / Certificate. The default synology.com certificate you … Read more about Synology: Default Certificate
I have come to realize that a lot of new Synology NAS users don’t know how to activate the HTTPS protocol. Are you tired of seeing your connection to your Synology NAS in the Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc. address bar is not secure? In this step by step guide I will try to easily explain … Read more about Synology: How To Enable HTTPS on DSM 7
Some days ago Let’s Encrypt announced that the TLS certificates issued by the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority are using a new intermediate certificate. Let’s Encrypt will start using their new roots next year. Today Let’s Encrypt are using a variant of their “R3” certificate which is cross-signed by IdenTrust, rather than chaining back to their … Read more about Synology: Let’s Encrypt Issues New Root and Intermediate Certificates
Did you know DSM 7.0 will support the TLS 1.3 feature? This is great news and here is why. TLS 1.3 was released in 2018, and now, encrypted connections are more secure and faster than ever thanks to it. If you host a website from home on your Synology NAS with DSM 7.0 and you … Read more about Synology: TLS 1.2 vs TLS 1.3