http://serverfault.com/questions/399487/cant-connect-to-mysql-using-self-signed-ssl-certificate
This one question contains much of the necessary wisdom around mysql and SSL certificates. Incredibly helpful.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SomeTroubleWithWildcardSSLCertificatesFireFoxAndRFC2818.aspx
Helpful article that explains some SSL errors with wildcard certificates which according to RFC2818 only go one level deep. So *.blah.com is good for foo.blah.com but not bar.foo.blah.com. Weird.
http://www.margi.marnet.net.mk/CA/certexport-mf.html
Converting pk12 / p12 files into pem files using openssl. `openssl pkcs12 -nocerts -in mycertificate.p12 -out ~user/.globus/userkey.pem` and `openssl pkcs12 -clcerts -nokeys -in mycertificate.p12 -out usercert.pem`
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=250673
Very helpful thread that explains a simple one-line fix to curl problems with the PHP AWS SDK on Ubuntu 8.04 (slice1).