doodle dabbles

OpenSSL is just a gem of a package. It is so incredibly powerful, and does just about anything you could imagine that a crypto library could do. I am admittedly just an amateur at using this library, but when debugging an SSL issue where a cert was not verifying for me, I discovered this command through Tha Googles: 

openssl s_client -connect www.logoworks.com:443 -showcerts

This shows you every step in which the SSL verification takes place, where the verification fails, etc. Really nifty.

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I’ve always admired the way Google News aggregates news content from thousands of sources into groups of stories. But every now and then, you get interesting, and amusing results like this (Phelps photo with the Dam story):

Google News confuses the story

For some reason I was just amused by it