Linux
What is a cipher suite?
Cipher suites decide how secure, compatible and fast your HTTPS website is. A cipher suite is a set of information that helps determine how your web server will communicate secure data over HTTPS.
A web server uses certain protocols and algorithms to determine how it will secure your web traffic. These are the ingredients of a secure connection. A cipher suite is essentially a list of those ingredients.
Previous versions of Linux distributions like Debian or Ubuntu, which were distributed with SysV init or Upstart, used init scripts located in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/
directory. These init scripts were typically written in Bash, and allowed the system administrator to control the state of services and daemons in their system. With systemd these init scripts have been replaced with service units.
Service units end with the .service
file extension and serve a similar purpose as init scripts. To view, start, stop, restart, enable, or disable
system services, use the systemctl
command as described in Table 2.1 - systemctl utility