Author Archives: Ann Purity

You are setting up a new .co.ke site, and your hosting dashboard has a button labeled “Install SSL Certificate.”  You click it, your site gets its padlock, and everyone calls the job done.  But somewhere along the way, you might have read that SSL itself was declared dead years ago. So what exactly did you …

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You get an SMS that looks like it is from your bank. It says your account needs urgent verification, with a link attached.  You tap it, the page loads, and there it is, the little padlock sitting next to the address bar. It looks secure, so you type in your PIN. That padlock did exactly …

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You run a Kenyan business with a main site at yourbusiness.co.ke, a blog at blog.yourbusiness.co.ke, and a customer portal at portal.yourbusiness.co.ke.  Your main site has a shiny padlock, but the blog and portal do not.  Now you are wondering if you need to buy and install three separate SSL certificates to get everything secured. The …

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You bought an SSL certificate and installed it. You even saw the little padlock appear for a moment.  Then you refreshed the page, and there it was again, that dreaded “Not Secure” warning sitting right next to your domain name. If you run a business in Kenya and depend on M-Pesa checkouts, online bookings, or …

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You are staring at a certificate order form, or maybe a CSR generator, and there is a field labeled “Common Name” with no explanation of what to type into it.  Guess wrong, and your certificate either fails to issue or works but throws a mismatch warning at your visitors.  You want to know, in plain …

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