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The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL - no warranty, it's free to use, copy and give away. WHAT POUND IS: 1. a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more back-end servers. 2. a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session information. 3. an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end servers. 4. an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and accept only well-formed ones. 5. a fail over-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take note of the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers. 6. a request redirector: requests may be distributed among servers according to the requested URL. Pound is a very small program, easily audited for security problems. It can run as setuid/setgid and/or in a chroot jail. Pound does not access the hard-disk at all (except for reading the certificate file on start, if required) and should thus pose no security threat to any machine.

La sécurité et la cryptographie ont pris une importance de plus en plus grande dans les réseaux informatiques actuels; Sécuriser l'accès aux sites web en SSL, chiffrer des données ou des courriers éléctroniques, sécuriser des connexions pour n'en mentionner que quelques applications. Mais la sécurité a un prix, n'est ce pas ? Plus maintenant... StartCom, le vendeur et le distributeur des Systèmes d'Exploitation StartCom Linux, gère aussi MediaHost™, une société d'hébergement spécialisée dans les Bases de Données et l'hébergement d'application web Java. MediaHost™ offre également à ses clients des sites web sécurisés SSL avec des certificats signés par StartCom depuis plusieurs années. C'est de là que l'idée pour ce projet a vu le jour: Des Certificats SSL gratuits!

Certificats SSL gratuits pour sites Web

SSL Certificate Free Secure SSL Server Certificates from COMODO - SSL Certificate Authority

"We'll prove here, that SSL certificates can cost much less or may be even free of charge! If enough people are using our certificates and stop buying them, well, than the existence of these companies will vanish and we'll all win another piece of freedom!"