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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:37 am Post subject:

Good article, Demon. It's always refreshing to read from someone who knows their own language well.

/me looks forward to the sequel

Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:39 am Post subject:

now thats what i'm talking about... good job...

for those interested building a cert in *nix is pretty easy...

($:~)=> vi pst.cnf

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RANDFILE = /etc/postfix/ssl/post.rand     





[ req ] 


default_bits = 1024 


encrypt_key = yes 


distinguished_name = req_dn 


x509_extensions = cert_type 


prompt = no     





[ req_dn ] C=countryName Two letters! 


ST=stateOrProvinceName 


L=localityName 


O=organizationName 


OU=OrganizationalUnitName 


CN=commonName 


emailAddress=emailAddress     





[ cert_type ] 


nsCertType = server

($:~)=> dd if=/dev/urandom of=./post.rand count=1 2>/dev/null

($:~)=> /usr/sbin/openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes \
-config ./pst.cnf -out ./post.pem -keyout ./post.pem

($:~)=> /usr/sbin/openssl gendh -rand ./post.rand 512 \ >>/etc/postfix/ssl/post.pem

($:~)=> /usr/sbin/openssl x509 -subject -dates -fingerprint -noout -in ./post.pem

And *Bamm* u got certs... which reminds me mine expire this month Sad

i need to do something about that..

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject:

Demon wrote:
Heh. *giggle*

A quick Google for SSL Certificates has this article in fifth place already.

can we say we rock? I knew we could

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject:

Wow! great article. and what timing! recently i've started caring more about security and last night i even went so far as to get my own personal email certificate from Thawte. of course it's all still greek to me but this article was a big help. now get back to work on some follow up articles! Smile

Leg Humper Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 4700 Location: Utah

Haven't read it yet, but I've been thinking about using SSL for my admin script I'm planning on writing. I'm sure this'll be a big help, since I know nothing of SSL at the moment, besides that it uses 128bit encryption...

Stray Dog Joined: 23 Feb 2016 Age: 30 Posts: 1

I didn't realize SSl certificates were so old. I thought they were a new thing.

I have a question, how do I change the contents of an SSL certificate?

I see some people have https as their site address, how did they get this, by changing their SSL certificate?

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:29 pm Post subject:

some use self-signed. other buy their certs from the providers. Those with "official" certs don't have browsers griping about their sites using insecure certs. Most folks that run a personal server for giggles that uses SSL will use self-signed certs. Sites for businesses should use official certs as they loose credibility with customers if they use insecure certs as they are even less assured of their payments methods being secure.

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 6:29 pm Post subject:

Welcome, 3Lark.

The https:// vs. http:// is actually which port you are telling your http server to listen on. 80 is http:// and 443 is https:// I have a server that doesn't listen on 80 at all except to redirect to 443.

As for certificates, well, there are some much cheaper sources for trusted certificates available. Generally the methods haven't changed since that article was written, but you could look to one of the cheaper cert providers like startssl.com or Let's Encrypt whose certs are as secure as those $600 ones.

BTW while you're getting your certs in place, mind your ciphers and upgrade your TLS and stop using SSL. And stop tracking mud across my nice clean floor Laughing

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