15 articles tagged TLS / SSL.
There is a category of enterprise terminology that exists primarily to make consultants argue with each other.
Read article: Asset Management vs. Configuration Management: Yes, They Are Different ThingsThere is a special kind of fun involved in looking at an X.509 certificate with OpenSSL.
Read article: X.509v3 Extensions: Taking Apart a Certificate ChainPost-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is creating a rather awkward problem for PKI.
Read article: X.509 Certificates With More Than One Signature: Because You Can Never Have Too Many Cryptographic…There is a security boundary in every browser that developers eventually run into.
Read article: CORS: Cross-Origin Resource SharingI once worked with an architect who had a fascinating theory about software development.
Read article: The Software Architect Who Believed in Bug-Free SoftwareLet’s get something out of the way upfront.
Read article: Enterprise Asset Management: The Most Boring Thing You Absolutely NeedThere is a wonderful phrase that gets tossed around in corporate IT meetings.
Read article: Risk Management: Or How Corporate IT Learned to Fear Everything Except the Things That Actually…In a previous blog post, I listed a number of SOA Specs and Security Specs that I thought were important to be familiar with when working with DataPower and other SOA technologies. In this post, I made a quick (and dirty) Visio diagram that I tend to draw up on a whiteboard when I’m at a new client…
Read article: SOA Specs VisualizedA couple of weeks ago I wrote a brief post about how to generate symmetric keys that can be used with DataPower. It demonstrates how to generate shared keys of various lengths using the Unix dd command. Today, someone asked how a shared key (or symmetric key) can be generated using the openssl…
Read article: Symmetric Keys—AddendumThis is an old picture that I made for a 2010 JBoss World security presentation. It came in handy not so long ago when I was explaining the SSL Handshake to someone.
Read article: SSL Handshake—The Visual
