A high-severity bug in OpenSSL was disclosed today, and it affects only organizations that installed an update released in June, and allows anyone with an untrusted TLS certificate to become a CA.

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library project came ...

How to utilize openssl in Linux to check SSL certificate details Your email has been sent Administering SSL certificates can be quite a chore, especially when it comes time to renew or replace them.

I'm trying to generate a certificate (using the openssl command line tool) that can't actually DO anything - can't sign, can't encrypt. Is this possible? It seems like the purpose of the certificate ...

Last night, I decided to up the ante and "upgrade" my perfectly working self-signed self-issued SSL certificate from valid for 365 days and (default RSA?) 1024-bit to valid for 4096 days and RSA ...