What EV certs are good for

Ben Laurie benl at google.com
Tue Jan 27 21:35:26 EST 2009


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:14 AM, William Soley <William.Soley at sun.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>>
>> It might be useful to put together a special-purpose HTTPS client which
>> would initiate a connection and tell you about the cert returned, then exit.
>
> I use ...
>
>        openssl s_client -connect www.whatever.com:443 -showcerts
>
> Ships with Mac OS, Solaris, Linux, etc.

And to use TOR, put "torify" on the front. Having run the tor server, of course.

Except on MacOS, where torify doesn't (can't? Does anyone know better) work.

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