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Simon Westphahl

Hi. I'm a student of applied computer science at University of Ravensburg-Weingarten and currently work as an intern at Nokia.

I grow chili peppers and occassionally do some freelance web development and IT administration. You can find some of my university and private projects on Github.


Latest blog entry

Setting up HTTPS with Nginx and StartSSL

Today in a lot of public spaces there is some sort of wireless internet access. But most of the time those are unencrypted links and therefore open to eavsdropping. This is especially undesirable when you have to supply sensitive information like username and password. With the Nginx SSL module and a free StartSSL certificate it is easy to provide secure access for the users of your website.

Published on January 03, 2012 | Read full entry