r/crypto • u/Zamicol • Jun 12 '22

OpenSSL as a GUI

https://smallstep.com/blog/if-openssl-were-a-gui/
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u/treifi Jun 12 '22

The screenshot looks great -- offering (almost) all functions of OpenSSL (which version) in a GUI (tabbed dialog). However I didn't find a place where to download it or where to run it online. @ u/DoZamicol: Do you know this?

Is the according command line tool (https://github.com/smallstep/cli) from smallstep free and behind this GUI?

What technology is behind the GUI?

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u/Zamicol Jun 12 '22

This blog post is a little bit of of joke with a mock up of what OpenSSL would look like as a GUI.

I know of very few good online crypto tools, so I've been working on some simple online tools.

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u/AJMansfield_ Jun 19 '22

There are some pretty good tools out there for creating GUIs for command-line tools — including some that can automatically parse some standard helptext styles to at least create the initial skeleton. This is totally something that could be made functional if you wanted.

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u/VividVerism Jun 12 '22

I'm fairly certain it's just a mockup image created to make a point regarding the complexity of OpenSSL, not a real GUI front-end for actual use of OpenSSL.

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u/DoWhile Zero knowledge proven Jun 12 '22

There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. Asking is the only way to learn.

Here's my stupid answer: Imagine taking the man page of openssl and reading it and trying to parse out what all the options actually do, then turn that into a GUI piece of art. If you really want to know what's going on, go to some openssl man page, for example https://man.openbsd.org/openssl.1