Whenever I'm connecting to a new remote server via SSH, I tend to verify the fingerprint to make sure that I'm actually connecting to my own machine. Usually it's not that big a deal as I'm simply comparing two strings, but what if those two strings are created with two different hashing algorithms?...
Scanning SSL/TLS configurations is part of every pentesters skillset and an often occurring task. In order to detect some of the issues, for example the use of SSLv2, certain requirements have to be met by the scanning tool. In the mentioned example, it’s that the scanner must have been build with s...