Articles by: reppep

Securing Communications with SSL/TLS: A High-Level Overview

Ed. Note: While some of the functionality mentioned in the articles below is available in the Certificate Assistant, which is part of Keychain Access, the articles will give you insight into what's going on behind the scenes.
 

I wrote a long article for TidBITS about SSL/TLS, attempting to explain it to a lay audience. I wrote another piece for admins on how to use CA.pl, which TidBITS didn't pick up, and a third piece on a couple shell scripts I wrote to help run a Certificate Authority, called cert.command & sign.command. I hope you find them interesting and useful.

  1. TidBITS: Securing Communications with SSL/TLS: A High-Level Overview
  2. Full Series (3 parts, with scripts): Securing Communications with SSL/TLS
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