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SSL renegotiation – all’s well that ends well

Posted on April 30, 2013 by j mozdzen

In “SSL renegotiation – a never-ending story?” I introduced you to problems with Apache’s httpd version 2.2.12 from SLES11SP2, where under certain conditions the server aborts the SSL renegotiation and the client then either appears to hang or reports an … Continue reading →

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SSL renegotiation – a never-ending story?

Posted on April 4, 2013 by j mozdzen

Recently, I wrote about SSL renegotiation problems caused by large requests. Unfortunately, this doesn’t cover the whole problem, which re-surfaced with the dreaded “Re-negotiation handshake failed: Not accepted by client!?” message in Apache’s error log. In our case, this error … Continue reading →

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SuSE’s (almost) unnoticed installation helper

Posted on March 28, 2013 by j mozdzen

Not everything I deal with does turn out to be a problem… sometimes it’s a feature: Today I came across the question, why does sshd on a SLES machine have the same host key after a reinstall – even if … Continue reading →

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