Category Archives: Security

Linux: Disk recovery with ddrescue

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‘ddrescue –direct’ will open the input with the O_DIRECT option for uncached reads. ‘raw devices’ are not needed on newer kernels. For older kernels see below.
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openssl: Show all certificates of a certificate bundle file

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the x509 option of openssl does only use the first certificate in a file.
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openssl: Establish a http connect behind a proxy

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since openssl 1.1.0 it is possible to establish a HTTPs CONNECT connection to a (Web)server behind a http proxy.

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openssl: Verifiy failed with error 3 at 0 depth lookup: unable to get certificate CRL

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openssl can verify certificates against the root CA/intermediate CA chain and also can check a crl list if a certificate is revoked.
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Linux: Place own/custom certificates in /etc/ssl/certs

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sometimes it is necessary to add an own root/intermediate CA top your machine CA store.

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