Tag Archives: SSL

Python Hacking – urlopen timeout issue

Posted on November 14, 2014 by daveti

Recent playing with Python urllib2 reveals an interesting fact that the timeout parameter of urlopen() does not work sometimes. The interesting issue has successfully pushed me deep into the Python source code for debugging. The final debugging, without surprise, shows … Continue reading →

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CCS’14 – Securing SSL Certificate Verification through Dynamic Linking

Posted on November 6, 2014 by daveti

Our paper ‘Securing SSL Certificate Verification through Dynamic Linking‘ is ready for download from CCS’14. This post gives a brief introduction of main idea of this paper – certShim, and then concentrates on bytecode instrumenting in JVM to fix some … Continue reading →

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