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HTTPS Using Server-Client Certificate Pair (1): Generate & Sign by OpenSSL

In General Linux on 23 January 2013 with 4 comments 3103 views

Multiple command lines in the process of generating certificates using openssl can be quite confusing and easily mixed up over which-do-what. Most of them are repetitions of almost the same syntax (where the confusion comes). Background: I need to setup an HTTPS site with not just server certificate to secure it, but requiring also client [...]

That Handy Tap Interface on Mac OSX

In Moving to Mac on 4 January 2013 with 1 comment 2513 views

Ubuntu has been my desktop for some years. I’ve become so attached in a way that I no longer know how to work without. Then of course, the pain of moving to Mac is one foreseeable future. Unlike my usual repository where everything is on the table and for free, this one is a little [...]