screwmysecurity

Someone suggested on a private mailing list to set the following option to avoid warnings about self-signed SSL certificates on a private git hosting service:

git config --global http.sslVerify false

This got me thinking. In the case where the tools that attempt to provide the passing semblance of security are simply getting in our way, we should have a way of overriding them at the dynamic linker level. Presenting:

libscrewmysecurity!

Usage

You need the OpenSSL headers installed on your system to build, as well as a c compiler and make.

$ git clone https://github.com/shenki/libscrewmysecurity
$ cd libscrewmysecurity
$ make
$ LD_PRELOAD=./libscrewmysecurity.so wget https://internaldomain/important-file.txt

How it works

This overrides libssl's X509_verify_cert function and causes it to return success (1) in all cases.

Obviously this means it only works for OpenSSL.