Blog posts tagged with 'tls':



Decoding TLS with PHP.

Date: 30 Dec 2013
Tags: [ encryption ]  [ rc4 ]  [ ssl ]  [ tls

As a proof of concept I wanted to see in how far I could decode some TLS data on the client side. Obviously, this is very complex matter, and even though TLS looks deceptively simple, it isn’t. To make matters worse, PHP isn’t quite helping us making things easy neither. 

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The first few milliseconds of https

Date: 19 Dec 2010
Tags: [ tls ]  [ ssl

I was on the verge of creating a post about the TSL/SSL handshaking, when I discovered a blogpost about the very same subject. Since I don’t think it’s of much use to blog about exactly the same thing, and I can really recommend Jeff Moser’s page so please read and understand it.

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SSL and Virtualhosting

Date: 12 Dec 2010
Tags: [ apache ]  [ sni ]  [ ssl ]  [ tls ]  [ virtualhosting

SSL and virtualhosting on 1 IP address? I can’t be done! Well, this might have been the case a few years ago but times has changed. Let’s explore the possibilites to have multiple hosts running on the same IP address AND all of them have their own separate SSL domain and certificates. It’s possible, but with a few catches..

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