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How to use SSL/TLS certificates on a Netgear M4200/4300 switch

Enterprise IT /

If you operate a Netgear switch in an environment that is subject to compliance requirements such as PCI or HIPAA, you are probably doing vulnerability scans, and the HTTP management interface of your switches will generate medium vulnerabilities (at least from Nessus): SSL Self-Signed Certificate SSL Certificate Cannot Be Trusted SSL Certificate Expiry It IS […]

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curl or libcurl: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate

Kubernetes, Linux, Mac, Web Applications /

curl, or an application that uses libcurl, may have a problem with an SSL certificate that works fine when using a web browser to access the same URL. Typical error output from curl looks like this: $ curl -v https://my-subdomain.mysecuresite.com Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443… TCP_NODELAY set Connected to my-subdomain.mysecuresite.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) port 443 (#0) ALPN, offering h2 ALPN,

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openssl unable to read/load/import SSL private key from GoDaddy

Enterprise IT, Linux, Mac, Web Applications /

openssl is the standard open-source, command-line tool for manipulating SSL/TLS certificates on Linux, MacOS, and other UNIX-like systems. I recently ran into an interesting problem using openssl to convert a private key obtained from GoDaddy. Someone else used GoDaddy’s “wizard” interface to generate a certificate signing request (CSR) and private key, and saved the files

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