Post tagged: openssl

Certificate Authorities

For home users there is not much use for running you own Certificate Authority (CA), and with availability of Letsencrypt and the plethora of ACME libraries setting TLS encryption is quite straight forward. ...

Stupid SSL tricks

Some hints and tips foor doing SSL related things: Netcat for SSL This command lets you connect to a SSL server (a-la netcat): cat request.txt | openssl s_client -connect server:443 Creating self-signed certificates This is a single command to generate a self-signed certificate: ...