OpenSSL Commands Cheat Sheet

OpenSSL is the true Swiss Army knife of certificate management, and just like with the real McCoy, we spend more time extracting the nail file when what we really want is the inflatable hacksaw. We will find an overview of the most commonly used commands below. Certificate requests and key generation with OpenSSL Typically, when…

Check SSL Certificate Chain Order with Openssl

A SSL certificate chain is an ordered list of certificates, containing an SSL/TLS Certificate and Certificate Authority (CA) Certificates, that enable the receiver to verify that the sender and all CA’s are trustworthy. Each certificate contains information about its issuer. The issuer is the next link in the SSL chain. The SSL chain will be…