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CERT System Administration

Crypt::OpenSSL:X509 and UTF-8 strings

Bumped to top due to updates. For my current project I look at a lot of X.509 certificates using Dan Sully’s Crypt::OpenSSL:X509 Perl module. I’m not using the version from CPAN, but his current codebase straight from his git repository. While trying to store information about certs in a PostgreSQL DB which is set to […]

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Tracks

Tracks

This one had more parallel tracks than the recent ones. Came out pretty well, though. The long bridge in the middle didn’t last long, though.

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Pet Peeves

Dear Microsoft, I have a simple request.

While messing around with X.509 certificates I not only encountered Umlauts, but Extended Validation Certificates as well. All nice and dandy, but these contain special OIDs in the subject field which openssl does not know the name. Googling around I found a few references to their names, but no definitive source (especially for a short-name). […]

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Tracks

Tracks

Back from the summer vacation, Clemens demanded that we build some tracks. I obliged and he is now really pushing a train along the tracks.

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IETF

What’s wrong with Speermint and Drinks

Ken recently expressed doubts about the direction drinks is taking. During a train ride last week I composed the following reply: