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If OpenSSL were a GUI

Updated on: May 20, 2024

Carl Tashian

"When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works,
it sort of becomes magical." - Jony Ive

*This is incomplete. It covers about 80% of one corner of OpenSSL's functionality. The certificate policy options have a lot more knobs that I didn't include.

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Carl Tashian (Website, LinkedIn) is an engineer, writer, exec coach, and startup all-rounder. He's currently an Offroad Engineer at Smallstep. He co-founded and built the engineering team at Trove, and he wrote the code that opens your Zipcar. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Siobhan and he loves to play the modular synthesizer 🎛️🎚️

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