The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way'

Re:The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way' by hinkley on Friday December 15, 2023 @03:05PM (#38658168)

Maybe it's because I have very good spatial intelligence, but I always found PKI to be a lot simpler than most people made it out to be. People treating me like some sort of priest of the church of crypto when generating and signing keys is really not that hard.

PKI is like a kitchen knife. The hard part is not getting one, or picking it up, it's using it without cutting yourself. But people treat the 'knife' like all aspects are magical.

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Re:The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way' by bbkane on Friday December 15, 2023 @08:21PM (#38660883)

I've found it ok to understand maybe 70% of PKI, but that I always need to review that last 30% (OSCP stapling, cross signing certs, whatever the heck the formats are, different extensions, more that I'm forgetting).

I've put my favorite learning resources and tools into https://www.bbkane.com/blog/learn-ssl/

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