cryptography

As you may have seen from my site, I have long been interested in old pencil and paper cryptosystems, even before getting hooked on computers. Over the years, I have re-implemented a few of them in various languages:

• Old BASIC on my Sinclair QL like ages ago
• Like 15 years ago in Ruby
• Then in Go when I learned the language in 2016
• And more recently in, what else, Rust

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I have now completed my API Wrapper series with this new one for the SSLLabs API, currently at v3. It is the perfect complement to the Cryptcheck) API and the Mozilla Observatory one I published earlier.

Welcome to the Golang API wrapper, now at version 0.10.0 (and using Semantic Versioning to ensure compatibility) and available on Github there.

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Like I did for the cryptcheck.fr API in the previous article), please welcome the API wrapper for the Mozilla Observatory API. The Mozilla Observatory is a site which include many tests for websites including TLS (SSLLabs & Cryptcheck) and HTTP-related ones (XSS protection, X-Frame, Content Security Policy and many others).

My Golang API wrapper, now at version 1.0.0 (and using Semantic Versioning to ensure compatibility) is available on Github there.

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Many of you know the SSLLabs site. Built by Qualys, Inc., it enables anyone to test various

TLS -related parameters for given website running on port 443 (the default for TLS). But did you know there is also the cryptcheck.fr one? Formerly known as Imirhil, it allow not only for https websites to be tested but also

SMTP ,

IMAP ,

SSH and general TLS (using a different port like a few API do) ones.

Both are integrated in the Mozilla Observatory which also include more tests such as HTTP headers and whether a given site is pre-loaded in browsers (

HSTS ).

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This is a Followup on the previous article

Just saw the Imitation Game yesterday night, in VOST ¹ in Paris.

Mild spoilers below, do not read if you intend to watch it :)

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