Extracting X509 Extensions from a CSR using the Bouncy Castle APIs
The Bouncy Castle Cryptography Java APIs are an excellent set of APIs that act as a provider for JCE and JCA. Additionally, they take care of the mundane and tedious (some would say overly complicated)...
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It’s not often that you’ll be creating your own X.509 certificates for a web server, since any certificates that you create (self-signed or signed by your own CA) will not be trusted by most browsers...
View ArticleUsing cURL in PHP to access HTTPS (SSL/TLS) protected sites
From PHP, you can access the useful cURL Library (libcurl) to make requests to URLs using a variety of protocols such as HTTP, FTP, LDAP and even Gopher. (If you’ve spent time on the *nix command...
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