Setting up s2n on Linux

Amazon has released a compact implementation of the TLS protocol calling it s2n for "signal to noise". One can get it right here on github: https://github.com/awslabs/s2n

The smaller code base in comparison to other SSL implementation should make s2n more observable, and thus verified better and potentially more robust than competitors. In this post I focus on installing s2n and trying it out on your Linux machine. For this I use Ubuntu 14.04, but the instructions apply to other Linux kinds as well.