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Re: What EV certs are good for

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Jan 28 14:01:19 2009

In-Reply-To: <7CF09ED3-F552-4BA1-B690-1FC03F98A08A@Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:35:26 +1100
From: Ben Laurie <benl@google.com>
To: William Soley <William.Soley@sun.com>
Cc: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>,
        Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:14 AM, William Soley <William.Soley@sun.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>>
>> It might be useful to put together a special-purpose HTTPS client which
>> would initiate a connection and tell you about the cert returned, then exit.
>
> I use ...
>
>        openssl s_client -connect www.whatever.com:443 -showcerts
>
> Ships with Mac OS, Solaris, Linux, etc.

And to use TOR, put "torify" on the front. Having run the tor server, of course.

Except on MacOS, where torify doesn't (can't? Does anyone know better) work.

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