sslmerge alternatives

Looking for an alternative tool to replace sslmerge? During the review of sslmerge we looked at other open source tools. Based on their category, tags, and text, these are the ones that have the best match.

Top 3

  1. Certigo (certificate validator tool)
  2. Lemur (certificate management)
  3. tls-ca-manage

These tools are ranked as the best alternatives to sslmerge.

Alternatives (by score)

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Certigo

Introduction

This toolkit is useful for automatic auditing certificates and retrieving information from them. It can be used for monitoring certificates. These certificates could be stored in a local file or remotely on a system. In the latter case, the tool will be able to connect to the system and retrieve the related information.

Project details

Certigo is written in Golang.

Strengths and weaknesses

  • + The source code of this software is available

    Typical usage

    • Certificate management

    Certigo review

    88

    Lemur

    Introduction

    With Lemur you can provide a central portal for developers and administrators to issue TLS certificates with predefined defaults.

    Lemur works on CPython 3.5 and uses the Flask framework. Another component it uses is cryptography to handle the creation of the certificates.

    Netflix develops on macOS and deploys on Ubuntu servers.

    Project details

    Lemur is written in Python.

    Strengths and weaknesses

    • + More than 500 GitHub stars
    • + The source code of this software is available
    • + Supported by a large company

      Typical usage

      • Certificate management

      Lemur review

      64

      tls-ca-manage

      Introduction

      The tls-ca-manage is a certificate authority management tool written in shell script. It can be used to manage certificates for TLS/SSL configurations.

      Project details

      tls-ca-manage is written in shell script.

      Strengths and weaknesses

      • + Very low number of dependencies
      • - Full name of author is unknown

      Typical usage

      • Certificate management

      tls-ca-manage review

      74

      Certificate Transparency

      Introduction

      HTTPS connections use cryptographic functions to provide confidentiality and integrity. It can provide features like domain validation, end-to-end encryption, and a trust chain from certificate authorities down to the end-user. Any flaws can endanger these goals, like the impersonation of a system, man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, and website spoofing. This project helps to find flaws and improve the overall security of our internet.

      Project details

      64

      cipherscan

      Introduction

      The tool is of great assistance to quickly perform a security audit and may be used during penetrating testing, or guiding system administrator for system hardening.

      Project details

      cipherscan is written in Python, shell script.

      Strengths and weaknesses

      • + Screen output is colored
      • + More than 1000 GitHub stars
      • + Very low number of dependencies
      • + Supported by a large company

        Typical usage

        • Information gathering
        • Security assessment
        • System hardening
        • Web application analysis

        cipherscan review

        60

        clinker

        Introduction

        Clinker is a tool to test SSL and TLS security for Firefox. It is an addon that shows the used cipher suites, certificates, and shows related security information of the connection itself.

        Requirements: Firefox

        Project details

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