On: If OpenSSL were a GUI

[tuckerpo]

Yeah, I'd prefer a GUI in this instance over going back and forth to the man page and trying to remember all of the options and all of their formats.

[bombcar → tuckerpo]

It really comes down to "is this a one-time task you're trying to figure out" or do you want the options set once and never touch it again in a script.

With the CLI at least you can cut and paste the options from somewhere else.

[solar-ice → bombcar]

Microsoft solved this for a lot of their server stuff by having a "show me the powershell command" at the end of most wizards. If you want to write a script, going through this process is usually a good idea.

[0daystock → solar-ice]

Google Cloud does this also - shows the equivalent gcloud command line to execute APIs available through the UI console.

[imwillofficial → 0daystock]

This is awesome

[paledot → bombcar]

"Cut and paste the options from somewhere" is a questionable practice even when it's not part of a security-critical workflow. And yet I'd venture to say that most people who use OpenSSL do so with commands copy-pasted verbatim from the internet, specifically because of its obtuse complexity.

Set-and-forget still requires you to know what to set.

[Ekaros → paledot]

And leads to doing things with little of understanding how and why it actually works in the first place.

[paledot → Ekaros]

You presume that I can gain any insight at all by copy-pasting a series of arcane invocations from the internet.

[fenesiistvan → tuckerpo]

I dont't konwn, if you realized that this user interface is just one of the many tabs