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The SSL Co-operative edit / delete

Attempting to establish a CA on the cooperative model.

to ca certificate coop cryptography security ssl tls ... on 26 July 2014

BetterCrypto⋅org edit / delete

Practical recommendations for TLS settings.

to cryptography security ssl tls ... on 28 April 2014

Diffie Hellman and TLS with nonsense parameters - Hanno's blog edit / delete

Apparently quite a lot of TLS implementations will happily accept 15 as a prime for DH key exchange. Presumably even if they were checking you could rely on the probabilistic test too...

to cryptography dh prime security ssl testing tls ... on 16 April 2014

Embedded in Academia : A New Development for Coverity and Heartbleed edit / delete

What Coverity is doing to detect the Heartbleed problem (in short: treating n2hs-style functions as generating tainted results).

to coverity security ssl static-analysis tls ... on 14 April 2014

Using Frankencerts for Automated Adversarial Testing of Certificate Validation in SSL/TLS Implementations edit / delete

Generating randomly-varied certificates and comparing how different implementations respond to them.

to ca certificate papers security ssl testing tls ... on 13 April 2014

ImperialViolet - Apple's SSL/TLS bug edit / delete

The famous copy-and-paste error.

to ag0700 goto security ssl tls ... on 25 March 2014

Moserware: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection edit / delete

Nice overview of what exactly is going on when establishing a TLS connection, with packet dumps and brief explanations of the maths.

to ag0803 crypto dump networking packet ssl tls ... on 17 December 2013

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