Monthly Archives: January 2010

New Year, New Theme

Having realized that I haven’t looked at WordPress theme development in nearly a year, I decided to search around and ended up switching over to Mystique. The theme offers a wealth of features and even obsoletes some plugins and widgets I was previously using. I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it long-term but it’s [...]

Parsing A CRL With OpenSSL

Short and sweet. This command will give you a list of revoked serial numbers: openssl crl -inform DER -text -noout -in mycrl.crl Most CRLs are DER encoded, but you can use -inform PEM if your CRL is not binary. If you’re unsure if it is DER or PEM open it with a text editor. If [...]

OpenSSL and IDN Certificates

As internationalized domain names (IDN) proliferate more people need to test with, and ultimately purchase, IDN certificates. If you need to generate a CSR or even a self-signed certificate for an internationalized domain follow these steps: Take the UTF-8 characters and paste them into a punycode converter (also known as ASCII compatible encoding, or ACE). [...]