Security – Page 3 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Did your system tell you about security updates?

With all of the activity surrounding the Heartbleed Bug, it was great to see so many people helping out to keep things secure. Of note was the actions of the FreeBSD team in getting out bug fixes. I have three recommendations for you: Follow a release branch (as opposed to stable). Run freebsd-update in cron […]

mail.app on Apple OSX and IOS fail when connecting to 4096-bit StartCOM certificates

Leave a Comment / Security / By Dan Langille / October 9, 2013

NOTE: this post title is inaccurate. It was not until later that I discovered the problem was related to 4908-bit certs, not 4096-bit certs. I appear to have found a bug with OSX and iOS. Neither one can handle a 4096-bit certificate by StartCom. Changing to a 2048-bit cert allowed the connection. I have not

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