This article explains how you can set up SSL vhosts under nginx on Ubuntu 11.04 and Debian Squeeze so that you can access the vhost over HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks by encrypting segments of network connections at the transport layer end-to-end.

"A few days ago, a group of scientists and security specialists finally succeeded to create a rogue CA that was able to issue certificates that are accepted by all browsers: ..."