On June 14th & 15th, 2019 couple CTF enthusiast participated to solve the Red Balloon Security CTF challenge at SummerCON announced here. For those who aren’t familiar with SummerCON, it’s a small 2-day hackers' conference organized and led by volunteers in New York City. Think of its culture similar to DEFCON. To kick off the game, each player collects two ATM card: a debit and a credit card. The tasks are to find the flag to load money into the issued ATM cards.

Note: post originally published on Januray 4th, 2019 2018 was a year of observations and lots of trials, but more importantly a year of freedom The year two thousand and eighteen was one of those years where I risked it all. I’ve never written a year review as I’ve never seen the need for it. This year, I was compelled by the love and gratitude of how much has happened is miserable.

When buying a TLS/SSL certificate from a CA, mainly a user supplies a csr file. The easiest way is using the OpenSSL CLI. But the tricky part lies in generating a SAN CSR. Although users can scope it in one liner, better to not mess with system config. Therefore the following method mitigates that. Copy this code block, and save it as san.conf or anything of preference (change parameters accordingly):

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