# https://gist.github.com/konklone/6532544
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# required: path to certificate and private key
# the .crt may omit the root CA cert, if it's a standard CA that ships with clients.
#ssl_certificate /path/to/unified.crt;
#ssl_certificate_key /path/to/my-private-decrypted.key;

# optional: tell browsers to require SSL (warning: difficult to change your mind)
add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000;

# optional: prefer certain ciphersuites, to enforce Perfect Forward Secrecy and avoid known vulnerabilities.
# done in consultation with:
#   http://ggramaize.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/tls-perfect-forward-secrecy-support-with-apache/
#   https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:RC4-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:CAMELLIA256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA;

# optional: turn on session resumption, using a 10 min cache shared across nginx processes
# as recommended by http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/configuring_https_servers.html
ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_session_timeout 10m;
keepalive_timeout   70;

# nginx 1.5.9+ ONLY
#ssl_buffer_size 1400; # 1400 bytes to fit in one MTU

# SPDY header compression (0 for none, 1 for fast/less compression, 9 for slow/heavy compression)
spdy_headers_comp 6;

# OCSP stapling - means nginx will poll the CA for signed OCSP responses, 
# and send them to clients so clients don't make their own OCSP calls.
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling
# 
# while the ssl_certificate above may omit the root cert if the CA is trusted,
# ssl_trusted_certificate below must point to a chain of all certs
# in the trust path - (your cert, intermediary certs, root cert)
#
# 8.8.8.8 below is Google's public DNS server. nginx will use it to talk to the CA.
#
# If the issuer certificate is not found (e.g. the certificate is self-signed),
# nginx will skip this with the warning: '"ssl_stapling" ignored, issuer certificate not found'.
ssl_stapling on;
ssl_stapling_verify on;
resolver 8.8.8.8;
#ssl_trusted_certificate /path/to/all-certs-in-chain.crt;