Forging this was a lot of fun and using the spring fuller really helped with separating the steel from the handle and the blade. Making this knife actually didn't take very long. About an hour of forging time, a couple hours of grinding and polishing.

The picture to the left shows two more cable tantos in various stages of progress. The top one had some rough grinding done to it whereas the bottom one is straight from the forge. Only about 10% of the time is actually spent forging the blades. The rest of time is spent grinding, polishing and working on the habaki as well as on the saya and everything else.

I tried 2.0.3 alpha against the Apple Push notification feedback service which requires a client key/certificate and it works great.

One hint... Make sure you add the key and cert to the SSL context before calling SSL_new(). Otherwise, you'll get an error that looks like:

sslv3 alert handshake failure in SSL routines SSL3_READ_BYTES

Here's the working code:

static void
init_feedback_service(struct event_base *ev_base,
    struct evdns_base *dns)
{
   int rc;
   struct bufferevent *bev;
   SSL_CTX *ssl_ctx;
   SSL *ssl;

   ssl_ctx = SSL_CTX_new(SSLv3_method());

   rc = SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file(ssl_ctx, "my_apple_cert_key.pem",
       SSL_FILETYPE_PEM);
   if (rc != 1) {
       errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "Could not load certificate file");
   }
   rc = SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(ssl_ctx, "my_apple_cert_key.pem",
       SSL_FILETYPE_PEM);
   if (rc != 1) {
       errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "Could not load private key file");
   }

   ssl = SSL_new(ssl_ctx);
   bev = bufferevent_openssl_socket_new(ev_base, -1, ssl,
       BUFFEREVENT_SSL_CONNECTING, BEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_FREE);
   bufferevent_setcb(bev, feedback_read_cb, NULL,
       feedback_event_cb, NULL);
   rc = bufferevent_socket_connect_hostname(bev, dns, AF_INET,
       "feedback.sandbox.push.apple.com", 2196);
   if (rc < 0) {
       warnx("could not connect to feedback service: %s",
             evutil_socket_error_to_string(EVUTIL_SOCKET_ERROR()));
       bufferevent_free(bev);
       return;
   }
   bufferevent_enable(bev, EV_READ);
}