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Zac Brown's Nonsense - OpenBSD, Let's Encrypt, and Full Certificate Chains
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Is this certificate DER or PEM encoded It turns out, both at the same time
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| | X509 certificate can be encoded either as DER or PEM. DER encoding is an efficient binary format, while PEM encoding is a wrapper around the Base 64 DER encoding of the certificate. Usually, when dealing with a specific certificate, you know beforehand whether it's encoded as DER or PEM. For example, in the opennssl CLI, you can give it the -inform parameter, which accepts either DER or PEM. However, what if don't know the encoding of the certificate, can you figure it out on the fly?
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Certificates: A Primer - Squanderingtime/Chris Chandler
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| | A handy explanation for the fields in a digital certificate.
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Let's Encrypt with auto-renewal and nginx - The Hidden Blog
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| | I recently moved from using a wildcard certificate to using a bunch of certificates from Let's Encrypt. I was a bit hesitant in the beginning because ...
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Article 45 Will Roll Back Web Security by 12 Years | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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| The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted traffic-and get away with it. Article 45 forbids browsers from...