Category: General

The topics covered here didn't fall into one of my usual categories.

Rojo's Roastery

Swarm log in

When I worked in nearby towns I would often stop in at Rojo’s Roastery for a latte; at least once a week, and usually on Friday's. Sometimes I would sit and enjoy a latte, cappucino or cortado while consuming a muffin or scone. It was a weekly espresso drink respite.

Once I started working at places further afield, I had little time for Rojo's. Depending on the location, Metropark or New York City, the commute was between 1 to 2 hours. I wanted to be at the office by 8 AM. Rojo's opens at 7 AM. I didn't have time to visit.

But I work from home a few days a week, and I am usually telecommuting on Friday. After six months of this, it dawned on me this morning, that I had time in the morning to return to my weekly habit.

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CipherScan

Using cipherscan to test the TLS certificate configuration of my web server.

Cipherscan tests the ordering of the SSL/TLS cyphers on a given target, for all major versions of SSL and TLS. It also extracts some certificates information, TLS options, OCSP stapling and more. Cipherscan is a wrapper above the OpenSSL s_client command line.

Cipherscan is meant to run on all flavors of UNIX. It ships with its own built of OpenSSL for Linux/64 and Darwin/64. On other platforms, it will use the OpenSSL version provided by the operating system (which may have limited ciphers support), or your own version provided in the -o command line flag.