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About Crossbear | pki.net.in.tum.de|crossbear.org edit / delete

"Crossbear is a tool that aims to detect and localise Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks on the SSL/TLS [and SSH] protocols." It works by comparing the certificate you get with what others got from different locations. (I imagine CDNs will break this as usual...)

to ca certificate security ssh ssl tls ... on 14 December 2013

Qualys SSL Labs - Projects / SSL Server Test edit / delete

Test your SSL webserver -- e.g. to see whether it supports a reasonable set of cipher suites.

to cryptography http ssl web ... on 01 December 2013

Keylength - NIST Report on Cryptographic Key Length and Cryptoperiod (2012) edit / delete

Handy reference to a selection of standards for key length.

to cryptography dsa gpg key pgp rsa ssl ... on 07 September 2013

TLS SNI Test Site: bob.sni.velox.ch edit / delete

Test whether your browser supports SNI.

to http https security sni ssl tls ... on 29 June 2011

ssl/ssh multiplexer edit / delete

Handy.

to software ssh ssl ... on 13 November 2009

MitM Me (SSL Error Bypass) :: Add-ons for Firefox edit / delete

Firefox 3 plugin that makes it less painful to work with self-signed certs.

to firefox software ssl ... on 18 August 2009

Perspectives : Improving SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-path Network Probing edit / delete

A neat approach to SSL certificate (etc.) validation: have multiple public databases mapping hostnames to certificates, which can be checked automatically. It's a bit of a pity that their plugins include binary libraries...

to certificates firefox security software ssh ssl ... on 26 August 2008

TinyCA edit / delete

... as recommended by ben.

to ca crypto software ssl ... on 21 August 2008

X.509 Style Guide edit / delete

If you didn't already think X.509 sucked, reading this will convince (or at least amuse) you.

to ssl x509 ... on 04 June 2005

Project VOLANS: How to set up Your own Certification Authority edit / delete

to ssl ... on 20 May 2005