Sometimes, I have to test a webservice from a device who can’t resolve the name of it.
When that’s required, you can count on CURL to achieve that easily:
curl --resolve www.example.com:80:127.0.0.1 http://www.example.com/Monthly Archives: November 2019
Dealing with cipher suites
A part of my daily job is to improve application security, at large. Doing so, I often have to deal with cipher suites hardening.
This task is not complex at all, yet you have to manage different libraries that are using different naming conventions (RFC, GnuTLS, OpenSSL, etc.). You can always count on the documentation or your favorite search engine, nonetheless, depending on their quality, that will make you waste a lot of time.
Fortunately, I found a very handy website, created by Hans Christian Rudolph and Nils Grundmann, which gives you much information about those libraries, cipher suites, protocols, etc. It also offers an API, yet that still a work in progress. Long story short, anytime you need to deal with cipher suite, you should take a look at it: