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by ioquatix 2869 days ago
It's funny how people seem to do the same thing at the same time. I recently made https://github.com/socketry/localhost however `mkcert` has lots of good ideas I'm going to "borrow" :)
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I made my own variant of this as well, although it was just config files & shell scripts wrapping OpenSSL instead of being a custom binary.
Me too, but it was mostly to teach myself about OpenSSL, and I feel like the experience have scarred me for life.

I mostly used the Ruby C-bindings, and I feel like finding information and documentation was very difficult, and it was even harder to figure out if there was any best practices I was missing.

It baffles me that so important infrastructure is built upon something that feels this brittle, and it keeps me up at night :-)

Don’t worry, everyone who used OpenSSL APIs feels the same way as you do.