sslyze – Fast and Full-Featured SSL Configuration Scanner

Transport Layer Security (TLS), commonly called SSL, is one of the most widely used protocols to secure network communications. As costs fall and user security and privacy expectations rise companies are deploying it more widely every year. Attacks against the CA system, SSL implementation flaws and aging protocol versions have grabbed news headlines, bringing attention to weak configurations, and the need to avoid them. Additionally, server misconfiguration has always greatly increased the overhead caused by SSL, slowing the transition to improved communications security.

To help improve system configurations, iSEC is releasing the free software “SSLyze” tool. They have found this tool helpful for analyzing the configuration of SSL servers and for identifying misconfiguration such as the use of outdated protocol versions, weak hash algorithms in trust chains, insecure renegotiation, and session resumption settings.

 

Features

• Insecure renegotiation testing


• Scanning for weak strength ciphers


• Checking for SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1 versions


• Server certificate information dump and basic validation


• Session resumption capabilities and actual resumption rate measurement


• Support for client certificate authentication


• Simultaneous scanning of multiple servers, versions and ciphers

You can download sslyze here:

sslyze-0.3_src.zip

Hack a webcam and a film camera into a USB microscope

Have you ever wanted to inspect or photograph something up close, but could not find amagnifying glass or did not have enough light on your subject? Well read on, because this project will do the job for you at little or no cost called “My Inspector Gadget”.

Most of you probably have a webcam sitting around somewhere, and after all the high voltage projects you’ve done using disposable cameras, we bet you have some camera lenses too. In a contest entryButch shows how to make your very own computer enabled microscope out of stuff that many of you will have lying around your house. What is basically involved is tearing apart a web cam, adding additional lighting and a lens assembly from an old film camera.

In is project he shows how to harvest the lens from the film camera and mount it, as well as where he added the LED. You can see in the picture above, his results are pretty good.