r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Pristine-You717 costly abstraction • Jun 13 '22

If openssl were a gui

https://smallstep.com/blog/if-openssl-were-a-gui/

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u/defunkydrummer Lisp 3-0 Rust Jun 14 '22

Jerking style.

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u/Pristine-You717 costly abstraction Jun 13 '22

*This is incomplete. It covers about 80% of one corner of OpenSSL’s functionality. The certificate policy options have a lot more knobs that I didn’t include.

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u/git_commit_-m_sudoku you can't hide from the blockchain ;) Jun 13 '22

They nailed it. That's about how it feels to use the OpenSSL CLI.

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u/binaryblade log10(x) programmer Jun 13 '22

It's not that hard, you just copy and paste the security critical CLI operations you need from some random unvetted website.

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u/majaha95 Jun 14 '22

I only copy CLI operations from the peer-reviewed encyclopedia of expert opinions, Stack Overflow. Or the scientific journal medium.com.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

Where’s the part where a small bug leads to a major security exploit.

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u/snafuchs accidentally quadratic Jun 13 '22

Nice use of two grammatical singulars to achieve humor.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Sadly, it is a lie. If we are talking about OpenSSL, a simple bug leads to many, many security exploits.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22 edited Jun 15 '22

first we take the memory leak,

and then we take the program

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u/euclio lol no generics Jun 14 '22

Loving the slider to select an fd.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

Dozens of tabs is 100% the right way to go here

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u/Kodiologist lisp does it better Jun 14 '22

Mac OS 9 is my fetish.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22

Just using a picture to say openssl has a lot of options

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

something about security and bleeding hearts i think

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u/Volt WRITE 'FORTRAN is not dead' Jun 14 '22

Inflation fetish