The management software that runs the certificate authority (CA) at DirectCA.org, or more precisely console.directca.org, is now open source. “vcert” is a web-based application written. . .
Category: Python
How to Serve Public Certificates with BIND for the Direct Project
Serving public certificates via DNS is quite an obscure endeavor. This is made quite evident by the total lack of documentation on how to serve. . .
ce – Certificate Examiner
This is a quick command-line utility for displaying information contained in an SSL certificates and CRLs. It is faster and easier to remember than the. . .
A Command-line Utility & Library to Fetch Revoked Serial Numbers from a Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
This functionality is not available in openssl’s comand line utility, so I cooked this up to do the job. The library function returns a Python. . .
A Collection of Handy Django Authentication Backends
This blog entry desribes three Django Authenticaon backends you can use instead of the default “django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend”. Below is a brief description of each. EmailBackend –. . .
Calculating BMI in Python
If you ever need to calculate Body Mass Index (BMI) in Python, here’s how… -acv
Get the Latest Object or a 404 in Django : get_latest_object_or_404
The get_object_or_404 is a handy Django shortcut. It keeps my views shorter. In my case however, I had the need to get the latest object.. . .
Fun with Framingham
Hot off the presses is an open source implementation of the Framingham 10 Year Heart Attack Risk Calculator. This software package consists of a command-line. . .
Fetching Django’s Model’s ‘verbose_name’ and/or Form’s ‘label’ Attribute
Problem: You want to display some information in a database record in Django, but you also want to display the field’s verbbose name. In other. . .
How to Create a Geospatial Query with maxDistance in MongoDB using Python
My company (Videntity) has been providing support to the Earth Institute (Columbia University). One of the tasks is to build a geospatial web service for. . .