Musings on Information Technology - A view from the trenches

Back in August I wrote a blog post describing how to use makecert to create a self signed CA, I also said that I would repeat the process b...

The ongoing saga of our SSL issues continues. After some help from a kind soul, we got some java code to do mutual authentication against II...

In these posts ( 1 , 2 ), I discussed using OpenSSL as a simple SSL client to help troubleshoot SSL connections. I did not make any mention ...

In this post , I stated that the errors, see below in red , were due to the linux server not trusting the TESTAuthority CA, which is true an...

Is there anything that OpenSSL cannot do? In this post , I showed how it can be used to test cipher levels. Today I'll show how it can...

A few weeks ago we were tasked with ensuring that our IIS 6.0 server only allowed Medium and High ciphers, so in order to test what ciphers ...