Network Security with OpenSSL: Cryptography for Secure Communications

✍ Scribed by Chandra, Pravir, Messier, Matt, Viega, John & Matt Messier & Pravir Chandra

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

OpenSSL is a popular and effective open source version of SSL/TLS, the most widely used protocol for secure network communications. The only guide available on the subject, Network Security with OpenSSLdetails the challenges in securing network communications, and shows you how to use OpenSSL tools to best meet those challenges. Focused on the practical, this book provides only the information that is necessary to use OpenSSL safely and effectively.  Read more...

Abstract: OpenSSL is a popular and effective open source version of SSL/TLS, the most widely used protocol for secure network communications. The only guide available on the subject, Network Security with OpenSSLdetails the challenges in securing network communications, and shows you how to use OpenSSL tools to best meet those challenges. Focused on the practical, this book provides only the information that is necessary to use OpenSSL safely and effectively

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Network Security with OpenSSL
Conventions Used in This Book
Comments and Questions
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
1.1.2. Cryptographic Algorithms
1.1.2.2. Public key encryption
1.1.2.3. Cryptographic hash functions and Message Authentication Codes
1.1.2.4. Digital signatures
1.2. Overview of SSL
1.3. Problems with SSL
1.3.1.2. Load balancing
1.3.2. Keys in the Clear
1.3.3. Bad Server Credentials
1.3.4. Certificate Validation
1.3.5. Poor Entropy
1.3.6. Insecure Cryptography
1.4. What SSL Doesn & t Do Well
1.4.2. Non-Repudiation
1.4.3. Protection Against Software Flaws. 1.4.4. General-Purpose Data Security1.5. OpenSSL Basics
1.6. Securing Third-Party Software
1.6.2. Client-Side Proxies
2. Command-Line Interface
2.2. Message Digest Algorithms
2.3. Symmetric Ciphers
2.4. Public Key Cryptography
2.4.2. Digital Signature Algorithm
2.4.3. RSA
2.5. S/MIME
2.6. Passwords and Passphrases
2.7. Seeding the Pseudorandom Number Generator
3. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
3.1.1.2. Public Certificati.

✦ Subjects

Computer network protocols;Computer networks;Security measures;OpenSSL