UNIX Coding School » Blog Archive

Note: The archives category content is an automatically generated focus channel and does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of this blog. No responsibility is taken for the external links presented here, follow at your own discretion.

The archives content is never scraped from sites - but an abstract obtained from search engines.

openssl many uses

Problem

You want to generate a self-signed certificate?
Encrypt a message with triple des
View base 64 encoded data
Generate and use random data
Test ciphers
Monitor certificate expiry dates

Problem	Solution	Example	Reference	Recommended
openssl code to generate self-signed cert encrypt with tripledes openssl base64 [ -d ] # encrypted with base64. Useful fortransfering control/binary content - like this: dd bs=1 count=512 if=/dev/urandom \| openssl base64 Also useful for reading mail openssl base64 -d /var/spool/mqueue/qfk3GAlBMn018552 Using openssl s_client to test ciphers supported, with automated script - then loop sites and email. Using openssl s_client to extract expiry dates, with automated script - then loop sites and email.

openssl many uses

Leave a Reply