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Decrypting TLS in Wireshark when using DHE_RSA ciphersuites

How can I decrypt TLS messages when an ephemeral Diffie-Hellman ciphersuite is used? I am able to expose the premaster secret and master secret from the SSL Client. Using that, how to decrypt the ...
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Using SSL on my sites for everything or just some things? [duplicate]

I have a server which provides a few services through the web, some of those services must be logged into to be able to use them. For these services I have implemented SSL using level 3 CACert ...
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How to set “Not Before” value to past when creating certificate request

We have lots of embedded TLS clients on the field. TLS Servers must be authenticated. Because long power cuts may reset clock of those devices, we have requirement to use certificates with validity ...
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How configure tomcat 7 SSL to use AES-NI?

My server has AES-NI and I would like tomcat 7 to make use of this but I am not really sure how to make that happen or where to even start looking. I am quite familiar with tomcat administration, and ...
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Which extensions to use for a S/MIME certificate?

Analogously to the SSL server certificate question, which extensions should I use for S/MIME, and should the CA be restricted somehow as well? (I'm using openssl, which at the moment creates CA and ...
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Extensions for SSL server certificate

I have some question about the X.509 v3 extensions. What extensions should appear in a proper certificate for a SSL server ?
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Signing CertificateRequest with special privileges

Well, I am not sure if I specified the question correctly. While I was browsing web, I checked several SSL certificates and noticed that even Root Certificate doesn't have set all attributes of ...
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openssl, create RC4-SHA certificate

gmail.com Google, fb,... use RC4-SHA. How does one create RC4-SHA self signed cert ? Or even with aes128 key ? I tried using using "genrsa -aes128", resulting cert was DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA openssl ...
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Are there any functional differences in the implementations of OpenSSL, GnuTLS, Java's TLS, and .NET's TLS?

Question Are there any functional (or detectable) differences between the various implementations of SSL/TLS? What are the differences between them? (e.g. which ones implement "False Start") ...
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Are SSL Certificates (Private and Public key) generated by OpenSSL and makecert compatible?

Are RSA SSL Certificates (Private and Public key) generated by makecert compatible with OpenSSL decryption ie. can I decrypt them with the openssl_* methods? I am working on two-way SSL authentication ...
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How secure is HTTP basic authentication over SSL? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is BASIC-Auth secure if done over HTTPS? I want to set up a web server on a computer at home which will basically do no more than send the browser a file which contains ...
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How do I use OpenSSL with the Java Keytool?

I believe I understand how OpenSSL works, and I believe I have a good game plan for setting up an SSL server on my private network, but before I go through the process of downloading and configuring ...
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Generate one CSR for two Windows servers

I have two Windows 2008 R2 servers which will be hosting a load balanced website. I will generate a private key and use it to generate a CSR using OpenSSL. How can I make this CSR (or the resulting ...
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Clients trust my custom CA

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm new to all this. I have a large number of users. I need to be able to generate SSL certs for various internal domain names. All of these certs need to be ...
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Is OpenSSL secure enough?

We plan in distribute Node.JS webservers, for their advantage of async I/O. The Node.JS https servers use OpenSSL libraries. It appears that OpenSSL has vulnerabilities resolved on a regular basis. ...