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Re:If OpenSSL were a GUI by tptacek on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:08PM (#31700709)
There should be lots of individual tools.

I have bad news for you: LetsEncrypt and ACME are almost 10 years old. Like the rest of us, you're getting old.

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Re:If OpenSSL were a GUI by vlovich123 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:05AM (#31701818)
LetsEncrypt was founded 7 and started issuing certs about 6 years ago.
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Re:If OpenSSL were a GUI by thayne on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:47AM (#31702508)
> There should be lots of individual tools.

Maybe there should be, but for many things that openssl can do (for example, testing and debugging a TLS connection, examining the contents of a certificate, creating a CSR to send to a non-ACME CA, converting between different formats of certificates, etc.) I'm not aware of good single-purpose tools.

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Re:If OpenSSL were a GUI by a2800276 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:52AM (#31702756)
> There should be lots of individual tools.

Arguably, OpenSSL is a collection of lots of individual tools. Each of the tabs in the "GUI" is an individual command with its own man-page, etc.

Each command still brings a lot of of options and therefore complexity with it, but that's because the domain is complex.

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Re:If OpenSSL were a GUI by thayne on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:34AM (#31702452)
openssl is more than twice as old as that.
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