(Co-authored by Gautier Dumas and Calvin Buckley) When we use open source languages such as PHP, Python, and Node.js on IBM i to help companies build and access APIs and other resources, we expect these resources to be protected with encryption (for example, the https:// protocol). Further protection is provided by an SSL / TLS certificate that can be authorized, or signed, by a popular certificate authority such as Verisign, Comodo, or Let’s Encrypt, or signed internally by the company itself. Self-signed certificates are most useful in situations where public trust of a certificate is unnecessary, such as: Test server...
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