Auth & security at scale
OAuth2, JWT, IAM patterns, secrets rotation, and least-privilege service auth.
How to Check Negotiated Cipher Suite in Python
Connect to a TLS server with Python's ssl module and print the negotiated protocol version and cipher suite details.
import ssl
import socket
def get_cipher_suites(hostname, port=443):
context = ssl.create_default_context()
context.set_ciphers("DEFAULT:@SECLEVEL=2")
with socket.create_connection((hostname, port), timeout=5) as sock:
with context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=hostname) as ssock:
…How to Mock a Content Security Policy Header in Python
Mock a Content-Security-Policy header locally and verify it's served correctly using Python's built-in HTTP server.
import json
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
CSP_HEADER = "default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'"
class MockServer(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
if self.path == "/":
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("…Browse by section
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