recon - Info
Recon is an audit tool for SSL-enabled services. Run it periodically to catch impending certificate expirations, mismatched certificate names, and unavailable services.
| Latest version: 0.99.6beta, released 2004/01/13 |
Once rare, SSL certificates are now commonplace. They help secure network communications by encrypting traffic and permitting services' client/server pairs to authenticate themselves.
SSL/TLS is based on chains of certificate trust and precise matching of names. As such, using SSL/TLS requires extra responsibility to make sure that certificates have not expired and that they match their hostnames. Invalid certificates cause myriad problems, some of which are extremely difficult to detect.
Recon helps shoulder the administrative burden of managing SSL certificates, by periodically checking SSL-enabled services for problems.