Archive for June, 2008

Mozilla X.509 certificates from the command line

Problem: You administer office PCs and have to deploy your organization’s new CA certificate. Since you know your users, telling them individually to download and install it is not an option. You need an automatic solution for unattended installation.

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on OpenSSL and documentation …

I think OpenSSL needs a documentation project. My first week of GSoC coding was dedicated to transport-tls, so I started with establishing a TLS connection and accessing different parts of the X.509 certificates to check them. I would have thought these are basic tasks for every TLS-enabled application and yet I found this unexpectedly difficult.

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